Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.

The horned species, named Spinosaurus mirabilis, had scimitar-shaped crests on the back that were sheathed in keratin. The crest was likely a brightly coloured display feature, curving towards the sky ...

Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question.

Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant ecosystem. Bordering the ancient Tethys Sea, which broke up the supercontinent Pangaea, the region was home to massive dinosaurs, ...

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons ...

“I envision this dinosaur as a kind of ‘hell heron’ that had no problem wading on its sturdy legs into two meters of water, but probably spent most of its time stalking shallower traps for the many ...

It was not an easy task for a team of dinosaur-hunting scientists to reach the remote site called Jenguebi in northern Niger ...

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 ...

Fossil tooth lodged in skull helps reconstruct final moments of giant dinosaur that became prey - Researchers say finding indicates duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur was killed by a T rex ...

Dinosaurs were first discovered in the 18th century, and as our tools have progressed, so too has our knowledge of the extinct species, proving them more intriguing than any science-fiction tale.

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, BBC Studios is offering a two-part special, Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution. Historian, author and curator ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...