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

A newly discovered fossil could change the way paleontologists have modeled the Spinosaurus for decades. This gigantic, carnivorous creature is well known among dinosaur heads for the unique sail on ...

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

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 ...

A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head and lived some 95 million years ago. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, it is the first ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A scimitar-crested "hell-heron" of a new dinosaur species left ...