In September 2012, the paleontologists Nazir Ibrahim and Paul Sereno at the University of Chicago opened a package containing a collection of fossils pulled from the Cretaceous rock beds of the Kem ...

Three years after the glittering Crystal Palace drew luminaries like Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Lewis Carroll to a world's fair exhibition in London, the ...

Spinosaurus is the largest predatory dinosaur known -- over two metres longer than the longest Tyrannosaurus rex -- but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. In a new paper, ...

What does it mean to be a “semi-aquatic” dinosaur? What does it mean to be a “semi-aquatic” dinosaur? Was it wading in the shallows, or could it have been a skilled swimmer? Each scenario paints a ...

Paleontologists have long been puzzled about how the Spinosaurus – a giant dinosaur and aquatic predator – would have behaved. Now, they believe it would have been less like an otter, and more like a ...

Dinosaurs ruled the land for millions of years. Now scientists have discovered a fearsome species that could have wreaked havoc in its prehistoric waters. An unusual fossil whose parts were flung ...

04:15, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Updated: 13:46, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 The research, documented in the journal Nature, was carried out in Morocco and it provides insight on how 50-foot-long Spinosaurus ...

Palaeontologists are reporting the world’s first known swimming dinosaur — a 15-metre-long behemoth with a crocodile-like face, feet well suited to paddling and a sail-like structure rising from its ...

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 ...