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

When Paul Sereno’s team pulled a chunk of bone from the rust-colored sandstone of central Niger in 2022, nobody in camp could figure out what it was. The fragment was too large, too curved, and too ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of Spinosaurus — the meat-eating dinosaur that may have rivaled T. rex in size. The new species, called Spinosaurus mirabilis, lived 95 to ...

Ninety-five million years ago, a creature unlike anything else on the planet waded into the rivers of what is now central Africa. It wore a towering curved crest of bone atop its skull and drove a ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO - A newly discovered species of Spinosaurus unearthed in the African Sahara will go on display at the Chicago Children’s Museum beginning March 1. The fossil was discovered by a team of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Paul C. Sereno, University of Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) My fixation on a small, ...