All articles tagged with #spikes
Lucas Glover addressed a spike-related incident at the 3M Open, saying he removed his shoes to avoid marking the hole after a complaint, clarified it wasn’t about AimPoint, and urged focus on Jackson Koivun’s victory.
North West showed off a daring blue manicure featuring silver spikes, rings, and a dangling gun charm in an Instagram Story, underscoring the 12-year-old’s fearless, fashion-forward style as Kim Kardashian supports her daughter’s self-expression.
Scientists describe Haolong dongi, a juvenile iguanodontian from northeastern China, with hollow, porcupine-like spikes along its neck, back, and sides. The 2.45 m skeleton is exceptionally well-preserved, but the spikes’ purpose remains unclear—defense, display, or sensing—while pigment was not detected and they are not protofeathers. The discovery broadens our view of dinosaur skin and was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026).
The oldest known ankylosaur fossil, Spicomellus afer, was discovered in Morocco, revealing an unusually spiked and elaborate armor that challenges existing theories of ankylosaur evolution, and suggesting tail weaponry evolved much earlier than previously thought.