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An exceptionally preserved iguanodontian in China still wears fossilized cells and hollow, porcupine-like spikes documented in no other dinosaur

A newly described dinosaur from northeastern China preserves fossilized skin cells and hollow, cylindrical spikes unlike any integumentary structure previously recorded in the fossil record. The ...
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Scientists discovered a 125-million-year-old dinosaur in China with skin cells still intact and hollow spikes no dinosaur has ever had

The word “fossil” usually makes you think of bones, sometimes a footprint, but rarely skin and skin cells. But a juvenile dinosaur from north-east China described in a 2026 study in the journal Nature ...