Feb 19
New 'scimitar-crested' Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara
by University of Chicago Medical Center
A paper published in Science describes the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new spinosaurid species found in Niger. A 20-person team led by Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, unearthed the find at a remote locale in the central Sahara, adding important new fossil finds to the closing chapter of spinosaurid evolution...
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scimitar-crested-spinosaurus-species-central.html
illustrations by Dani Navarro
