Spinosaurus, the largest known predatory dinosaur, now has another claim to fame - new fossils reveal it had adaptations to life in the water, which have never been seen in a dinosaur before.

Spinosaurus was larger than both T. rex and Giganotosaurus, which was previously the largest carnivorous dinosaur known. But it's unclear just how big Spinosaurus was, due to incomplete fossils.

Spinosaurus has changed dramatically since I was a kid. The model I used to terrorize my other toys with looked like an overgrown Allosaurus with a giant sail on its back. As paleontologists ...

Analyzing a 125-million-year old fossil, scientists have uncovered more information about a group (or genus) of dinosaurs known as Spinosaurus. The Spinosaurus dinosaurs were enormous… and fierce.

Spinosaurus had penguin-like bones, a sign of hunting underwater The enigmatic predator—and its cousin Baryonyx—are the only known dinosaurs other than birds with this aquatic adaptation.

While the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex is rightly recognised as being among the most fearsome of carnivorous dinosaur s, in recent years an even larger beast - the spinosaurus - has begun to attain a ...

Instead, Spinosaurus may have just waded in the shallows, heronlike, to do its fishing. The new study has not convinced those skeptics. Spinosaurus has “clearly got very dense bones.

Paleontologists generally agree that the Spinosaurus was a fish-eater. But, what they haven't always agreed on is how the dinosaur went about catching its meals and whether or not the giant ...

The predatory Spinosaurus, which could grow up to 23 feet (7 meters) long, had a broad, paddle-like tail that behaved more like the tails of today's crocodiles than that of other carnivorous ...

It was an honest mistake. We now know that Spinosaurus had, instead, a long, narrow snout—making these pictures (like the one you can see here) obsolete. 6.