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.

Did Spinosaurus, the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur, wade into rivers and lakes like a heron? Or did they swim underwater like a hippo or croc? It turns out that the answer was in their bones.

Spinosaurus is a notorious mystery among paleontologists, right down to its social and behavioral habits. What we do know is that it likely spent most of its time in the water, unlike many other ...

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When survival is on the line, hunting for food is only half the battle.

Now it could walk, our Spinosaurus had to do something else equally important – it had to swim. Palaeontologist Nizar Ibrahim has been studying Spinosaurus for over a decade, and as he says in ...

The evidence of Spinosaurus’ existence turned to ash in an instant. Stromer and Markgraf found multiple different dinosaurs, but there was one that was unlike any that had been found before.

Spinosaurus research got a shot in the arm when a new skeleton was unearthed in Morocco in 2008. Ibrahim and his team published evidence of the dinosaur’s swimming skills in 2014, although some ...