An artist's impression of Ceratosuchops, one of the two types of spinosaur investigated in the study, and the orientation of its brain inside its skull.Credit: Anthony Hutchings You might imagine that ...

Researchers have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two British spinosaurs, helping uncover how these large predatory dinosaurs interacted with their environment. Researchers from the ...

Artist's impression of Ceratosuchops and the orientation of the endocast in the skull. Credit: Anthony Hutchings Researchers from the University of Southampton and Ohio University have reconstructed ...

A team led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno has described a new species of spinosaur from the central Sahara, a fish-eating giant called Spinosaurus mirabilis that sports a scimitar ...

When Paul Sereno’s team pulled a chunk of bone from the rust-colored sandstone of central Niger in 2022, nobody in camp could figure out what it was. The fragment was too large, too curved, and too ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil found 23 years ago in Portugal is shedding new light on spinosaurs—a fearsome and enigmatic group of carnivorous dinosaurs that rivaled even tyrannosaurs in terms of size ...

A new species of Spanish spinosaur is helping to reveal more about the origins of the dinosaur group. The newly described Protathlitis cinctorrensis is the latest to be discovered in Spain, adding to ...

Paleontologists have not found much of Oxalaia quilombensis. A fragment of the snout and a portion of the upper jaw are all that is known of this dinosaur. Even so, those two parts are enough to know ...

Researchers from the University of Southampton and Ohio University have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two British spinosaurs, helping uncover how these large predatory dinosaurs ...