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 ...

The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, ...

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 ...

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Researchers now believe the 50-foot-long Spinosaurus may have been the first dinosaur to take the plunge, swimming in the rivers of North Africa 97 million years ago. The dinosaur had a giant sail on ...

The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, ...

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A group of paleontologists just announced it’s found “unambiguous evidence” suggesting that at least some species of Spinosaurus—a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period in ...