Rare skull fossils of Spinosaurus found in the Sahara reveal a new species with a crest and evidence it hunted fish in inland rivers.

The Pokémon Fossil Museum opens at the Field Museum on May 22, 2026. Get a family-friendly guide to the exhibit and what to expect.

The fossils belong to Spinosaurus mirabilis, a meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 95 million years ago and measured roughly 40 feet long. Its most visible feature was a 20-inch scimitar-shaped bony ...

Join Jim McKeeman, tour guide and lab preparator at the Morrison Natural History Museum, for an engaging presentation on local paleontological discoveries. Learn about dinosaurs and other ancient ...

Fossils may give us an idea of what dinosaurs looked like – they may even give us clues about how they lived – but very ...

Millions of years in the making, a major discovery is turning heads around the globe. A paleontologist from the University of Chicago has uncovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara Desert.

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a ...

The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.

Fossils reveal that long-necked baby dinosaurs were the main food source for large, voracious Jurassic predators.