The remains of the fearsome Spinosaurus mirabilis have been waiting for eons to be discovered in a Sahara Desert fossil bed.

Beats finding a seashell.

Brazilian scientists have discovered Dasosaurus tocantinensis, a new species of giant dinosaur, reinforcing the historical land connection between South America, Africa, and Europe. A study questions ...

Recent discoveries reveal a new giant dinosaur species in Brazil and ancient Roman use of human excrement medicinally. The Brazilian fossils show links to European species, suggesting ancient land ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science already houses a stunning collection of some 4.3 million relics spanning eras, fields, and cultures. As it happens, the museum is sitting on even deeper history ...

An excavation at a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire in the U.K. has yielded a massive, downright prehistoric find—not one, not dozens, but hundreds of footprints left behind by dinosaurs of the Middle ...

Niamey, Niger – In a corner of the sprawling grounds of Niamey’s only museum – a unique, open-air style arrangement in Niger’s capital that doubles as a zoo – imposing fossil replicas of long-extinct ...

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Some 140 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period, dinosaurs roamed northeastern Brazil, leaving behind fossilized footprints that give the area its popular name—Dinosaur Valley. Local ...

The complete skeleton of an 8-meter-long dinosaur has been unearthed from marine deposits dating back 72 million years at Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, making it the largest dinosaur skeleton ...

(Phys.org) —A Montana State University graduate student and MSU paleontologist David Varricchio are part of a research team that discovered the most productive and diverse dinosaur fossil site known ...

A triceratops skeleton, a fixture in a Wyoming museum for decades, is set to go under the hammer, marking a rare occasion where a publicly exhibited dinosaur fossil enters the auction market at a time ...