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A 125-million-year-old dinosaur unearthed in China was preserved so perfectly that individual skin cells are still visible, and it was covered in hollow, porcupine-like spikes never documented on any dinosaur before

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body.single-post h1.entry-title,body.single-post .entry-title{text-transform:none!important;} The fossil is easy to oversell, because the real version is already strange enough. In a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Jiandong Huang and colleagues describe Haolong dongi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. The animal lived about 125 million years ago. The specimen is a young ind…
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ScienceBlog.com broke the news on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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