Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur

2025/08/27 by Susannah C. R. Maidment, Driss Ouarhache, Kawtar Ech-charay +11 · 3 voices · 5 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Armour #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geology #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Materials science #Nanotechnology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09453-6

published in Nature 647(8088), 121-126 (Nature Portfolio)

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Citations

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Discussions

• Spicomellus' gonna keep dancing at the Big Bony Club. #Paleostream sketch, based on new material described by Maidment et al., 2025 doi.org/10.1038/s415... [bsky, 47 points, 2 comments]
• (1) Publicação do estudo: Maidment et al. (2025). Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur. Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s415... Referência adicional: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new... [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
• Paper: Maidment, S.C.R., Ouarhache, D., Ech-charay, K. et al. Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]