Paleontologists have identified the first unequivocal new species of the fish-eating dinosaur Spinosaurus in more than a century. Spinosaurus mirabilis is one of the last-surviving spinosaurid species. Image credit: Dani Navarro. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, the new species roamed Earth during the Cretaceous period, around 95 million years ago. The dinosaur’s fossils were uncovered in the remote fossil area of Jengueb in Niger, deep in the central...
