Under the central Saharan sun, paleontologist Daniel Vidal spotted a mysterious bone poking out of the ground during an excavation in Niger. It looked like a dinosaur vertebra at first. But upon ...
(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, ...
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 ...