Dinosaurs: 'Bizarre' fossil is Africa's first ankylosaur

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What puzzled researchers was the fact that the spikes of ankylosaurs are fused directly to the bone.

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Dr Maidment's team were so taken aback by the fossil, they wondered for a while whether it might actually be a fake, or not an ankylosaur at all; perhaps it was some monster fish never previously identified. But with detailed scanning and further investigations, it's been possible to rule out both alternatives.

This helps fill in important gaps in our knowledge of dinosaur history, and suggests strongly that ankylosaurs had a global distribution.

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