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125 million-year-old dinosaur with never before seen hollow spikes discovered in China

ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news [Unoffic… February 18, 2026
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A 125-million-year-old dinosaur just rewrote what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Scientists in China have uncovered an exceptionally preserved juvenile iguanodontian with fossilized skin so detailed that individual cells are still visible. Even more astonishing, the plant-eating dinosaur was covered in hollow, porcupine-like spikes—structures never before documented in any dinosaur.

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