Fossils from Morocco gave an international team of paleontologists the opportunity to fill in huge gaps in their knowledge about Spinosaurus, one of history's scariest dinosaurs — and the result was 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, ...

The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, ...

The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, ...

A new Spinosaurus fossil has revealed that this gigantic predatory dinosaur was a proficient swimmer. The first fossil of the creature’s tail has been discovered, revealing large spines that indicate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is one of the most famous dinosaur species, but over the past few years, its ferocious reputation has taken a nosedive, hence a series of viral memes about the creature ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The newest addition to the Field Museum on Chicago's lakefront will give visitors a glimpse of the largest predatory dinosaur yet discovered via a 46-foot (14.02 meter) cast of a ...

The Spinosaurus is thought to have been a 50-foot predatory, water-loving beast. Findings about a newly researched massive fossil support evidence that the giant creature was, in fact, aquatic, a ...