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 ...
Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in Niger, challenging old theories about Spinosaurus and ...
In the central Sahara, where sandstone ridges bake under temperatures that can top 120°F, a University of Chicago team led by ...
A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head and lived some 95 million years ago. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, it is the first ...