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Judi Lynn

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1. Badass Dinosaur With a 'Mohawk' of Spikes Uncovered in Patagonia
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:36 AM
Feb 2019


JACINTA BOWLER 6 FEB 2019

When dinosaurs roamed the Earth in ancient Patagonia, one particular type of dinosaur might have stuck out amongst the rest.

Living 140 million years ago in the early Lower Cretaceous, the newly discovered herbivore Bajadasaurus pronuspinax had a thing for growing spikes.

It was part of the Sauropod family, but looked a little like a small Brontosaurus crossed with a porcupine.

"The sauropods are the big dinosaurs with long necks and long tails, but specifically this is a small family within the sauropods which were about 9 or 10 metres in length," palaeontologist Pablo Gallina from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina told Agencia EFE.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-weird-new-spiky-dinosaur-looks-like-a-giant-backwards-porcupine
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