Shovels scrape and pickaxes fly in the Moroccan Sahara, where a team of paleontologists, students, and expert diggers search for fossils of the dinosaur Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Bones found at ...

The Spinosaurus thigh bone (left) was thin sectioned with a diamond saw (middle) to reveal under magnification its bone structure (right). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Well, back in 2022, a group of researchers published a paper suggesting that the bone density of the Spinosaurus’ thigh and rib bones could have allowed it to be more of a deep aquatic creature ...

For one, the spinosaurus' dorsal sail is depicted as a flat protrusion with little more than tight skin covering the bones that make up the spine. In reality, the protruding dorsal bones could ...

Stromer named the dinosaur Spinosaurus aegypticis ... a Bedouin fossil hunter who showed him a collection of dinosaur bones housed in a distinctive purple sediment with yellow stripes.

Doing what they do better than any animal that ever evolved, a pair of the giant sail-backed predators, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, wade into nearshore waters for prey as pterosaurs soar overhead ...

Whales lack the bone structure and muscles to support their own weight ... Interestingly, theropod dinosaurs such as Spinosaurus and T. rex were also the only animals to exceed the largest land-based ...

By measuring bone proportions (such as length ... An ocean away from South America’s titanosaurs, Spinosaurus lived in what is now North Africa during the Cretaceous period. Spinosaurus is unique ...

Since its discovery in 1915, the biology and behaviour of the enormous Spinosaurus has puzzled palaeontologists worldwide. It was recently argued that the dinosaur was largely an aquatic predator, ...