When Paul Sereno’s team pulled a chunk of bone from the rust-colored sandstone of central Niger in 2022, nobody in camp could ...

In 2019, paleontologist Paul Sereno and a 20-person team were prospecting ancient river deposits in the central Sahara when ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spinosaurus, the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur, and its closest relatives long have confounded scientists trying to understand how these unusual water-loving beasts lived ...

Unlike most dinosaurs, it seems that spinosaurs liked the water. This suggestion is based on the analysis of a well-preserved fossil tail of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, published Wednesday in the journal ...

March 23 (UPI) --Spinosaurus, the largest known predatory dinosaur, had bones dense enough to submerge itself to hunt, according to a study released Wednesday. A group of paleontologists analyzed the ...

What if the giant sail-backed Spinosaurus wasn't actually a swimming dinosaur at all? Despite some scientists' impressions of the dinosaur, as well as the way it is portrayed in Jurassic Park 3, the ...

A century ago, scientists unearthed fossils of a gigantic carnivorous dinosaur bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex in the Sahara desert, but until recently, paleontologists thought the fearsome beast was ...

Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered—even bigger than T. rex—but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. It’s hard to guess the behavior of an animal ...