The Isle of Wight is one of the most famous places in Europe for discovering dinosaur fossils. Known as “Dinosaur Island”, ...

Dr Neil Gostling University of Southampton paleobiologist Dr Neil Gostling provided expert advice for the Netflix series The ...

My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scimitar-crested "hell-heron" of a new dinosaur species left paleontologists amazed after it was unearthed in the central Sahara. The fossilised remains of the new Spinosaurus were first discovered ...

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 ...

NIAMEY, Niger — 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 ...

A paper published in Science describes the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new spinosaurid species found in Niger. A 20-person team led by Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Professor of Organismal Biology and ...