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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a “hell heron” that waded through shallower waters. The ...

When the paleontologists first plucked a massive, scimitar-shaped bone from the desolate sands of the central Sahara in 2019, they didn't immediately recognize it for what it was. It took a return ...

During a journey that could be the plot of an adventure novel, paleontologists discovered the fossils of a new dinosaur species in the vast Sahara Desert. “It was the expedition of a century, without ...

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 ...

The team was led by Paul Sereno, a professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. The discovery, the authors argue, adds a late chapter to spinosaurid evolution, and it ...