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.

According to their research, the juvenile iguanodontian named Haolong dongi had fossilized skin so detailed that individual cells are still visible. The porcupine-like spikes have never been ...

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, ...

A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist ...

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 ...

Scientists working in Niger’s remote Sahara desert have uncovered fossils of a previously unknown Spinosaurus species – one of the largest ...

Learn how a newly discovered 95-million-year-old Spinosaurus mirabilis used interlocking teeth to catch fish in an ancient ...

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

Denver has been quietly redefining itself. Once known as the “Queen City of the Plains,” Denver is now one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country, a place where migration, innovation, ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build evolutionary trees from hundreds of anatomical traits—hip sockets, vertebrae, ...