A new paper challenges the idea that the large, carnivorous Spinosaurus dived after prey rather than wading and plucking it out of the water. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has previously reported on ...

Researchers have discovered that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the terrifying aquatic dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago, had a powerful tail that enabled it to be accustomed to an aquatic lifestyle ...

Spinosaurus, the terrifying dinosaur that was the antagonist of "Jurassic Park III," was an actual "river monster," according to newly published research. The study, published in the scientific ...

An artist's reconstruction of Spinosaurus, showing a paddle-like tail that would have helped it swim. Davide Bonadonna When Munich's Paleontological Museum was bombed in 1944, the institution's ...

In 1915, German paleontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach described one of the weirdest dinosaurs known to science: the “Egyptian spine lizard” or Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Unearthed at a ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Spinosaurus is one of the most fascinating and debated dinosaurs in history. With its massive sail, elongated skull, and adaptations for a semi-aquatic lifestyle, it has challenged long-held ideas ...

In prehistoric North Africa, the carcharodontosaurus, a lizard-like carnivore with shark-like teeth more than six inches long, and the spinosaurus - at four metres, one of the biggest killers to walk ...