Photos: This Plant-Eating Dinosaur Had Spikes, Armor and Camouflage

Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 15:52 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The 110-million-year-old dinosaur, a nodosaur — a relative of the ankylosaur — was covered in spiky, bony plates known as osteoderms, but it had another trick up its sleeve to protect itself from predators: camouflage.

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