I've been staring at these meter-long spikes for three years. 🦴 First it was just a rib bone in Morocco. My advisor said "interesting, but let's see more." I almost convinced myself it was an anomaly. Then we found more. Spikes fused directly to every rib. Nothing like this exists—not in any vertebrate, living or extinct. But sitting in my office at 2am, I kept thinking: what if I'm wrong? What if I'm the grad student who claimed to rewrite ankylosaur evolution over some weird fossilization? I called it "totally wacky" in interviews because I didn't know how else to explain something that shouldn't exist. The imposter voice was louder than the data. But the Nature paper is out now. And I'm still here, questioning whether I deserve to have found this. Sometimes the biggest discoveries feel the most impossible to believe. #Science #ImposterSyndrome #PaleoLife