Today, the Sahara Desert is one of the harshest environments in the world, with temperatures reaching a record of 136°F.

My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page ...

The Sahara Desert hides its secrets well. Under the scorching sun in a remote region of Niger, paleontologist Daniel Vidal ...

A group of scientists recently announced that they had discovered a new species of dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in the ...

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted ...

Paleontologists have long been puzzled about how the Spinosaurus -- a giant dinosaur and aquatic predator -- would have behaved. Now, they believe it would have been less like an otter, and more like ...

Steph Panecasio was an Editor based in Sydney, Australia. She knows a lot about the intersection of death, technology and culture. She's a fantasy geek who covers science, digital trends, video games, ...

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 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 ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...