Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

Towering at over 50 feet long with jaws like a crocodile, Spinosaurus was unlike any other dinosaur on Earth. This documentary dives deep into the life of the largest known carnivorous dinosaur, a ...

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...

Learn how a newly discovered 95-million-year-old Spinosaurus mirabilis used interlocking teeth to catch fish in an ancient inland river system. A curved slab of bone pulled from a remote fossil site ...

Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question. Unearthed in a rare Saharan fossil site in Niger, Spinosaurus mirabilis had a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Two young spinosaurids hunt a juvenile Phuwiangosaurus in Cretaceous Thailand. A large adult ...

New species Spinosaurus mirabilis found in Sahara desert It had a large scimitar-shaped bony crest atop its head Its body, skull and teeth were adapted for fish-eating Spinosaurus was one of the ...

Paleontologists have recently discovered a previously unknown species of Spinosaurus deep in the Sahara Desert, revealing a dinosaur with a remarkable skull crest unlike anything observed before in ...

Unlike most dinosaurs, it seems that spinosaurs liked the water. This suggestion is based on the analysis of a well-preserved fossil tail of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, published Wednesday in the journal ...

A blade-crested Spinosaurus discovered in the Sahara is rewriting the final chapter of dinosaur evolution. A study published in Science reports the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a newly ...

Unearthed in a rare Saharan fossil site in Niger, Spinosaurus mirabilis had a large head crest that may have signaled a message to rivals competing for resources or territory along the way. artwork by ...