When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Spinosaurus means "spine lizard," an appropriate descriptor, as the dinosaur had very long spines ...

The wild-looking Spinosaurus may not have been the Michael Phelps of dinosaurs, as was recently claimed, but rather more like a casual bathing beauty that preferred to wade gracefully in the shallow ...

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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 ...

The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer reinvigorated the franchise's audience with its first look at the movie's new dinosaurs, and none more so than the new version of the franchise-favorite carnivore, ...

The enigmatic predator—and its cousin Baryonyx—are the only known dinosaurs other than birds with this aquatic adaptation. In this artist‘s depiction, Spinosaurus traverses the rivers of Morocco more ...

For years, controversy has swirled around how a Cretaceous-era, sail-backed dinosaur—the giant Spinosaurus aegyptiacus—hunted its prey. Spinosaurus was among the largest predators ever to prowl the ...

Spinosaurus was even bigger than the T-rex, and new discoveries indicate you wouldn't have been safe even in the water. Spinosaurus, it turns out, was an excellent swimmer thanks to its large, ...