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Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in Niger, challenging old theories about Spinosaurus and ...

The first indisputable evidence of a new species of Spinosaurus in over a century belongs to S. mirabilis, named for its scimitar-shaped crest and found at a locality far from the ocean’s edge 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 ...

For years, Spinosaurus fossils were known only from nearshore deposits along Africa’s margin of the Tethys Sea. That pattern helped fuel debate over whether these theropods were shoreline waders or ...

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 ...

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 ...