Cute, green, and sporting two sprigs of hair on his head, a mischievous baby dinosaur named Dooly is one of the most beloved cartoon characters in South Korea. So, when researchers from The University ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Paleontologists still know comparatively little about fin-backed ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large ...

When the paleontologists first plucked a massive, scimitar-shaped bone from the desolate sands of the central Sahara in 2019, they didn't immediately recognize it for what it was. It took a return ...

Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant ecosystem. Bordering the ancient Tethys Sea, which broke up the supercontinent Pangaea, the region was home to massive dinosaurs, ...

It was a spine-tingling discovery. Fossil hunters might’ve just made the find of a lifetime — the skull of a supersized dinosaur from “hell” with a swordlike horn protruding from its head, per a study ...

A team led by the University of Chicago said it has discovered a new species of dinosaur — a fish-eating giant, and the first new species of its kind discovered in a century. In 2019, a team led by ...

During a journey that could be the plot of an adventure novel, paleontologists discovered the fossils of a new dinosaur species in the vast Sahara Desert. “It was the expedition of a century, without ...

New species Spinosaurus mirabilis found in Sahara desert It had a large scimitar-shaped bony crest atop its head Its body, skull and teeth were adapted for fish-eating Spinosaurus was one of the ...

Spinosaurus mirabilis prowled around what is now Africa some 95 million years ago. Dani Navarro Roughly 95 million years ago, a large, meat-eating dinosaur with a curved, sword-like crest atop its ...