This illustration shows the dinosaur Spinosaurus mirabilis standing at water's edge over a carcass of the coelacanth Mawsonia some 95 million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert in Niger. A ...

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted fish by wading, researchers reported.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an artist's recreation, 'Spinosaurus mirabilis' stands along the river’s edge over its prey some 95 million years ago. (CREDIT: ...

With an incredible sail and heavy bones that might have acted as ballast, Spinosaurus seems primed for snatching fish. The ...

Scientists Unearth a New Spinosaurus Species With a Feature That Left Researchers Astonished ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is one of the harshest environments in the world, with temperatures reaching a record of 136°F. However, it once looked very different, and around 95 million years ago, it ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large ...

For years, Spinosaurus fossils were known only from nearshore deposits along Africa’s margin of the Tethys Sea. That pattern helped fuel debate over whether these theropods were shoreline waders or ...