[The turn-of-the-century Spinosaurus.Today’s Sciencexpress paper suggests that the dinosaur was even more aquatic.] The core of the new study, led by University of Chicago paleontologist Nizar ...

But, Ibrahim notes, "the sail likely had more than one function." Spinosaurus had a long and narrow snout at the end of its skull, and a small crest above its eyes. It had six or seven needlelike ...

Spinosaurus was even larger than Tyrannosaurus rex and measured 45 feet (13.7 meters) long. The colossus had an unusual skull shape that made it look more like a toothy crocodile than a raptor ...

Fabbri and his colleagues later recovered part of Spinosaurus's skull from this bunch of bone fragments. “The bones don’t lie,” says National Geographic Explorer Nizar Ibrahim, the study’s ...

That means we're not likely to see the Spinosaurus introduced in "JP3." That does provide us the opportunity to revisit a long-burning question, though: Why wasn't the Spinosaurus in "The Lost World?" ...

The true form of Spinosaurus is still up for grabs ... but useful for staying submerged. Skull elements from another Moroccan specimen showed nostrils that sat near the eyes, like those of ...

A new paper challenges the idea that the large, carnivorous Spinosaurus dived after prey ... A New Species: Researchers analyzed a skull found in Montana of a plant-eating member of the ceratops ...

"It's a real predator's paradise," Ibrahim said. The team recovered scores of Spinosaurus bones, including parts of the skull and jaw, sail-like spines, forelimbs and hind limbs and the tail.

A skull reconstruction of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus with previously known bones shown in blue. rtwork by Davide Bonadonna, Ibrahim et al., Science/AAAS “It was a chimera: half duck, half crocodile.

and the skull reminds (us) of the ones we find in modern crocodiles." Fabbri is among a team of researchers who in March published an article concluding that the density of Spinosaurus fossils ...