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

A $100 Spinosaurus tooth, ordered online and neatly displayed in a glass dome, seemed like a dream come true for journalist Jacopo Prisco. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and shipped from ...

Having a piece of dinosaur history meant visiting museums or joining a fossil dig site. But today, fossil collecting is no ...

The remains of the fearsome Spinosaurus mirabilis have been waiting for eons to be discovered in a Sahara Desert fossil bed.

University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno led several expeditions to Niger that culminated in the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, the first evidence of a new species of the Spinosaurus genus in ...

The online shop I bought the Spinosaurus tooth from is based in the UK and has a page on its website that asserts its commitment to ethical sourcing of artifacts. The company didn’t respond to ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...