The dinosaur’s fossilized remains were found in 1914 from the Bahariya Formation from a locality in the northern part of the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt. They were first described in 1931 by the German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach, who mistakenly dubbed the species the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus.

SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, about 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is that the original fossil from Egypt was completely destroyed 80 years ago,

Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Province’s Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The group determined the skull belonged to a sauropodomorph—a group of dinosaurs that also includes giant herbivorous sauropods such as Brachiosaurus —albeit one entirely new to the scientific record.

Scientists found a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt named Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photographs of fossils that were destroyed during World War II, The Sun reported. In 2023, researchers from the University of Tübingen in Germany discovered previously unknown photographs of the lost fossils in the Huene Archive,

Archaeologists Baffled after Discovering Gigantic Skull of a 200-million-year-Old Dinosaur, Say it is a Never-Before-Seen Species In a groundbreaking discovery that has left archaeologists astounded,

The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.

Dave Lovelace, the research scientist at UW-Madison's Geology Museum, and his team of paleontologists discovered North America's oldest-known fossil that is 230 million years old. "It took about 10 years for us to build that story,