They discover a new species of dinosaur with an “extraordinary” bony spike armor “never s... - Market Research Telecast

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The ‘Spicomellus afer’, as the new species was baptized, had physical attributes that make it unique.

Although it is true that this genus of dinosaurs was characterized by having a bony armor that protected them from predators and other dangers, this was embedded in the skin, so the fact that in the ‘Spicomellus afer’ it is physically fused with the bones it converts in an “exceptional” specimen that “it looks like nothing that has been seen before in the animal kingdom!

The ‘Spicomellus afer’, the paleontologists detailed in their research published recently in Nature, it is only the second known specimen of its kind to inhabit Gondwana, the massive supercontinent that after its separation gave rise to South America, Africa, Australia and Antarctica