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“We Couldn’t Believe How Weird It Was” – The World’s Strangest Dinosaur Just Got Weirder
Scitech Daily ^ | November 09, 2025 | University of Birmingham

Posted on 11/10/2025 6:14:15 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/10/2025 6:14:15 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

Spikey Ping!..............


2 posted on 11/10/2025 6:14:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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3 posted on 11/10/2025 6:15:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I imagine they were slow-moving, unafraid, generally peaceable critters, like a ginormous porcupine.


4 posted on 11/10/2025 6:18:05 AM PST by ladyrustic
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To: Red Badger

Looks like something Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble would’ve cleaned their golf shoes with.


5 posted on 11/10/2025 6:18:30 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Red Badger

Spikey Cow ,come try to eat me ,LOL


6 posted on 11/10/2025 6:18:39 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: ladyrustic

Like a ginormous Horned Toad..............


7 posted on 11/10/2025 6:22:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

What is the size of this creature, sans spikes? About like a rhino? Larger, smaller?


8 posted on 11/10/2025 6:23:18 AM PST by ryderann
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To: Red Badger

More like a porcudillo......


9 posted on 11/10/2025 6:24:40 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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10 posted on 11/10/2025 6:25:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
🐱‍🐉🦴 Thanks! Glad to see the Thag reference got posted. 😊

11 posted on 11/10/2025 6:29:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a cross between an armadillo and a porcupine.

Either way, looks very predator proof. 😏


12 posted on 11/10/2025 6:29:36 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: Red Badger

It looks like it would make a nice pet.


13 posted on 11/10/2025 6:31:04 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: SunkenCiv

‘Thagomizer’ sounds a lot more scientifical than ‘that spikey thingy’.............


14 posted on 11/10/2025 6:36:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s a really big hornet toad


15 posted on 11/10/2025 6:40:50 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ladyrustic

So do I.


16 posted on 11/10/2025 6:41:44 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: equaviator

True.


17 posted on 11/10/2025 6:42:03 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: piasa

They got bigger ones in Texas.....Just ask a Texan................


18 posted on 11/10/2025 6:48:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like it is an example of those ridiculous “get rid of parasites with this simple trick” ads that a lot of websites allow on their home pages.

I bet the “running of the Spicomellus” was lots of fun in Pamplona.

Ankylosaurus no match for an asteroid.


19 posted on 11/10/2025 6:49:13 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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>>looks very predator proof

And fatal to the male during mating, causing early die-off of the species.

20 posted on 11/10/2025 6:49:54 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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