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 ...

About a hundred million years ago, a dinosaur more than 50 feet long prowled Morocco's ancient coastlines, using its croc-like skull to feed on fish and other animals. But scientists have debated how ...

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 ...

Scientists today unveiled what appears to be the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator reveal it adapted to life in the water ...

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Researchers have discovered that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus had a "paddle-like" tail to propel itself through the water – bolstering the case that this particular species of dinosaur was capable of ...