125 million-year-old dinosaur with never before seen hollow spikes discovered in China
Science Daily
February 18, 2026
A 125-million-year-old dinosaur just rewrote what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Scientists in China have uncovered an exceptionally preserved juvenile iguanodontian with fossilized skin so detailed that individual cells are still visible. Even more astonishing, the plant-eating dinosaur was covered in hollow, porcupine-like spikes—structures never before documented in any dinosaur.
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Originally published on Science Daily on 2/18/2026