The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.

Stromer and his colleagues drew and photographed some of its bones and decided the creature was a member of the massive carnivorous genus Carcharodontosaurus, which was among the largest dinosaurs ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII.

Scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur after analyzing existing research material of a fossil specimen that was destroyed during World War II. The identification of ...

Paleontological discoveries are becoming more and more surprising, especially considering the latest find by a group of experts who have discovered what is known as a new type of d ...

They were first described in 1931 by the German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach, who mistakenly dubbed the species the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. In addition to the data and ...

Stromer assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, shark-toothed lizard. At about 10 meters long, it was one of the largest known land-based carnivores in the history of the Earth ...

Initially, the fossils were thought to belong to a large theropod dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus. However, closer inspection decades later showed a prominent horn, an enlarged frontal brain ...

“Stromer assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, shark-toothed lizard,” researchers said. “At around (32 feet) long, it was one of the largest known land-based carnivores in ...

Stromer assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, shark-toothed lizard. At around ten meters long, it was one of the largest known land-based carnivores in the history of the earth ...