A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...

A shocking discovery is rewriting what scientists know about a famous dinosaur as many believe the fossil could be the first ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a ...

Fossils reveal that long-necked baby dinosaurs were the main food source for large, voracious Jurassic predators.

Fossils of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a massive fish-hunting predator that lived 95 million years ago in present-day Niger, ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

Paleontologists unearthed a new species of Spinosaurus in the Sahara Desert in Niger, a discovery that adds to the debate over whether the prehistoric creatures were fully or semi-aquatic ...

A newly discovered scimitar-crested dinosaur was a "hell heron" that fed on fish despite living hundreds of miles from the ...

Experts have discovered a huge new species of fish-eating dinosaur. It has been named Spinosaurus mirabilis and scientists ...

Scientists were “astonished” to find a new species of Spinosaurus with a scimitar-shaped bony crest—uncovered in the Sahara ...

The 225-million-year-old fossil that changes everything we know about dinosaurs ...

The dinosaur—likened to a "hell heron"—is believed to have had a bright-colored crest sheathed in keratin atop its head.