A century ago, scientists unearthed fossils of a gigantic carnivorous dinosaur bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex in the Sahara desert, but until recently, paleontologists thought the fearsome beast was ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Earlier this year, paleontologists proved Jurassic Park wrong yet again by discovering that the superpredator Spinosaurus was the first water-dwelling dinosaur. Now some of the same team has found ...

The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, ...

Imagine a dinosaur so powerful that even the mighty T-Rex would have to think twice before picking a fight. Meet 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, ...

The newest addition to the Field Museum on Chicago's lakefront will give visitors a glimpse of the largest predatory dinosaur yet discovered via a 46-foot cast of a Spinosaurus skeleton suspended high ...

A predatory dinosaur that was bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex may have been able to use its tail to swim through water, allowing it to hunt aquatic prey. “It opens up an entire new world of ecological ...

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 ...