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 ...

For decades, the animal’s Frankenstein-like appearance perplexed researchers. The story of the first partial Spinosaurus skeleton — and the second — is equally intriguing. More than a century ago, ...

Without a new Spinosaurus skeleton to examine ... Pierce knew that answering the question required dynamic, real-world experiments. She and her colleague George Lauder, a fish biologist, agreed ...

The peculiarities of the creature began to make real sense, however ... phase of the digital dinosaur project: a life-size Spinosaurus skeleton in high-density polystyrene foam, created from ...

German paleontologist Ernst Stromer named the prehistoric predator Spinosaurus aegyptiacus in 1915 after the first partial skeleton was discovered by his fossil hunter Richard Markgraf in Egypt.

His team worked through grueling conditions in the hopes of finding vertebrae from a skeleton and were finally rewarded with more than 30 Spinosaurus tail bones. Through further study and modeling ...

Field Museum researcher Matteo Fabbri said the cast is about 60 percent of a skeleton, the most complete specimen of the species. “Spinosaurus is a very weird animal,” Fabbri said.

Field Museum researcher Matteo Fabbri said the cast is about 60% of a skeleton, the most complete specimen of the species. “Spinosaurus is a very weird animal,” Fabbri said. “The proportions ...

The 46 foot long cast of a Spinosaurus suspended high above the Field Museum's main hall after its unveiling, June 2, 2023, Chicago. The cast is about 60 percent of a skeleton, the most complete ...