Welcome to the first episode of Newly Unearthed!! Today we dug into the recent discovery of Spicomellus afer, an incredibly spiky armoured dinosaur that has been discovered from the Atlas Moutains in Morrocco by Professor Susannah Maidment and her team. The fossils remain in Morrocco :D Some interesting links: Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09453-6 Natural History Museum article: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/august/bizarre-armoured-dinosaur-spicomellus-afer-rewrites-ankylosaur-evolution.html NHM video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeCFl0MJ0A&t=441s Univeristy of Birmingham article: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/bizarre-armoured-dinosaur-spicomellus-afer-had-spikes-sticking-out-from-its-neck-fossils-show UoB video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_u6ppYtipY My Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/em_gems_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Em_Gems_?s=09 Email: [email protected] #newdinosaur #spicomellus #dinosaurs