A new species of Spinosaurus with spectacular headgear has been described, and the location where it was found is powerful evidence in a closely followed dinosaur debate: Were these giants sea ...

Scientists have uncovered rare skull fossils of Spinosaurus, a huge meat-eating dinosaur, in the Sahara Desert for the first time in more than 100 years. Those bones come from a newly identified kind ...

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 semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.

A newly discovered species of large dinosaur lived in marshy areas, hunted for fish and had an impressive horn protruding from its skull. It is the first time in over 100 years that scientists have ...

A team led by the University of Chicago said it has discovered a new species of dinosaur — a fish-eating giant, and the first new species of its kind discovered in a century. In 2019, a team led by ...

A single Spinosaurus mirabilis rears over a carcass of the coelacanth Mawsonia on the forested bank of a river some 95 million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert in Niger. A scimitar-shaped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an artist's recreation, Spinosaurus mirabilis stands along the river’s edge over its prey some 95 million years ago. A scimitar ...

Deep in the sun-baked Sahara, where the shifting sands of Niger dominate, paleontologists have uncovered a remarkable discovery reshaping our understanding of the Cretaceous Period: the remains of a ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large ...

Fossils of a new Spinosaurus species, mirabilis, discovered in Niger reveal a giant semi-aquatic dinosaur with a striking crest and fish-eating adaptations. Photo: Dani Navarro/University of Chicago ...