Paleontologists Uncover a New Spinosaurus Species by Following a Clue From a Decades‑old Book Into the Sahara Desert

Paleontologists uncover a new Spinosaurus species by following a clue from a decades‑old book into the Sahara Desert

My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page tome in French about the rocks of the central Sahara: "Dent de Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret," which translates to "tooth of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret"—"Depéret" refers to the scientist who originally named the species.

Paleontologists uncover a new ‘Spinosaurus’ species by following a clue from a decades-old book into the Sahara Desert

In this illustration, _Spinosaurus mirabilis_ fight over a carcass some 95 million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert in Niger. Dani NavarroMy fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page tome in French about the rocks of the central Sahara: “Dent de Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret,” which translates to “tooth of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret” – “Depé…

New sabre-crested Spinosaurus species named from desert dinosaur fossils

‘Astonishing’ fossils from Niger have been named as Spinosaurus mirabilis.