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A giant blade-crested spinosaurus, the “hell heron,” discovered in the Sahara
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An international team has discovered a new species of spinosaurid in Niger, named Spinosaurus mirabilis, the first find of this genus in over a century. The discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis in a continental area of the Sahara challenges the hypothesis that described these dinosaurs as marine predators adapted to open-water diving. Spinosaurus mirabilis: the new dinosaur found in the Sahara The find in a continental region of the Sahara refutes…
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der Standard DENew spinosaurus species from the Sahara carried a "crumb sabre" on its head. More fossil fragments speak once more for a wading rather than a floating way of life.
A giant blade-crested spinosaurus, the “hell heron,” discovered in the Sahara
Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under the desert sun. Discovered in remote inland river deposits in Niger, the fossil rewrites what we thought we knew about spinosaur dinosaurs, suggesting they weren’t fully aquatic hunters but powerful waders stalking fish in forested waterways hundreds
A expedition to the north of the coast revealed a new splice of spinosaur, a group of dinossaurs flesh-like creatures. The amazing Spinosarus lived more than a thousand miles from the coast of T tis (the great ocean that had emerged the two supercontinents of Laursai and Gondwana) h 95 thousand is from years. Read more (02/24/2026
New ‘scimitar-crested’ Spinosaurus discovered
A new spinosaurid has been described from Niger, shedding new light on its evolutionary history.Palaeoartist reconstruction of Spinosaurus mirabilis eating a coelacanth. Art by Dani Navarro. Credit: University of Chicago and Dani Navarro. In a new study published in the journal Science, a team of researchers describes a new spinosaurid, Spinosaurus mirabilis, discovered in Niger. When S. mirabilis was discovered in November 2019, palaeontologist…
‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur fossils uncovered in the central Sahara
A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it up. In November 2019, a 20-person team working in Niger collected that crest and a few jaw fragments from the desert surface. They did not grasp what they had at first. When they returned in 2022 and found two more crests, the pieces clicked into place. The fossils belonged to a new species of spinosaurid: Spinosaurus mirab…
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