After millions of years, six incredible dinosaurs are coming back to life. In “Walking with Dinosaurs” on PBS, paleontologists discover the lives behind the fossils, using the latest scientific ...

Just last year, scientists declared that Spinosaurus was the first dinosaur known to swim through the water, preying upon fish as it did so. A new study, however, suggests that it was probably more of ...

For years, controversy has swirled around how a Cretaceous-era, sail-backed dinosaur—the giant Spinosaurus aegyptiacus—hunted its prey. Spinosaurus was among the largest predators ever to prowl the ...

The Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is one of the most famous dinosaur species, but over the past few years, its ferocious reputation has taken a nosedive, hence a series of viral memes about the creature ...

The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer reinvigorated the franchise's audience with its first look at the movie's new dinosaurs, and none more so than the new version of the franchise-favorite carnivore, ...

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The enigmatic predator—and its cousin Baryonyx—are the only known dinosaurs other than birds with this aquatic adaptation. In this artist‘s depiction, Spinosaurus traverses the rivers of Morocco more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A predatory dinosaur that was bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex may have been able to use its tail to swim through water, allowing it to hunt aquatic prey. “It opens up an entire new world of ecological ...