Europe's most complete stegosaurian skull unearthed in Teruel, Spain https://phys.org/news/2025-05-europe-stegosaurian-skull-unearthed-teruel.html

New insights into the phylogeny and skull #evolution of stegosaurian #dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late #Jurassic https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/146618/

"The detailed study of this exceptional fossil has allowed us to reveal previously unknown aspects of the anatomy of #Dacentrurus armatus, the quintessential European #stegosaur, which in 2025 marks 150 years since its first description."

@animalculum alternatively, it's a photo of how I imagine myself looking as I enjoy a really good burp to myself

@animalculum That's some seriously badass Thagomizers.

(corrected the scientific term)

@WhyNotZoidberg @animalculum

Is a Thagomancer like a dinosaur necromancer?

@futurebird @animalculum "Thagomizer": The pointy bits on members of Stegusaria dinosaurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Thagomizer - Wikipedia

@WhyNotZoidberg @animalculum

I liked the new word you invented "Thagomancer" :) I will find a use for it ...

@animalculum Well the glory goes to Gary Larson, in 1982. But the fact that it was adopted by actual scientists, including the Smithsonian...