For millions of years, dinosaurs ruled the land and sky. For whatever reason, though, the ferocious beasts never took the deep dive into the open seas. Sure, some were believed to splash around or ...

From riverbanks to shallow lakes, Spinosaurus combined display, biomechanics and hunting power in one of evolution’s strangest designs.

A new paper challenges the idea that the large, carnivorous Spinosaurus dived after prey rather than wading and plucking it out of the water. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has previously reported on ...

Fossilized track marks from a stampede of dinosaurs in Australia actually may have come from swimming animals, new research suggests. The finding, published in the January issue of the Journal of ...

A video shared to X (formerly Twitter) on March 4, 2024, (archive) claimed to show "Divers in the Pacific Ocean [who] accidentally filmed a dinosaur ? swimming behind them." The post, which included a ...

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 ...

For more than 150 million years, amazing dinosaur species in every shape and size filled Earth’s habitats. Long-necked giants, living tanks, razor-toothed carnivores and brightly colored birds ...

There aren’t many dinosaurs confirmed to be semiaquatic. A new discovery adds a duck-like species to their narrow ranks. This reconstruction depicts Natovenator polydontus, a newfound species of ...

Evidence suggests dinosaurs like tyrannosaurs were probably best suited to a version of the doggy paddle. Despite what's depicted in movies and books, the real Tyrannosaurus rex was likely an awkward ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...