Scientists Find Dinosaur Covered in Never-Before-Seen Spikes

Paleontologists in China just unearthed Haolong dongi, a Cretaceous-era herbivore that looks like God got bored and decided to glue porcupine quills all over an iguana-toothed dinosaur. This spiky teen dino had hollow skin spikes never seen before—defensive porcupine vibes, maybe thermoregulation, or just ancient drip to flex on T. rexes. So well-preserved you can see individual cells, it’s basically the Jurassic Park fossil we all secretly wanted. Nature’s punk rock phase was apparently very pointy.