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

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII.

Paleontologists have dug up new dinosaur drama. Researchers identified a new dinosaur species that lived in Africa roughly 95 million years ago and published their findings last week in the ...

This fascinating story begins in 1914 when German fossil collector, Richard Markgraf, discovered remains in Egypt's Bahariya Oasis. These were first kept in the Bavarian State Collection for ...

In 1914, the fossil of this large dinosaur was unearthed in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt. Later, the fossil was shipped to paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach in Munich. World War II ...

The 95million-year-old skeleton was excavated in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt before it was stored in the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology in Munich, Germany. But the remains ...

German scientists discovered the fossilised remains of this bloodthirsty giant in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert in 1914. Palaeontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach packed up ...

Richard Markgraf, an Austrian fossil collector, was in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt on an expedition in 1914 when he discovered prehistoric fossils belonging to a large dinosaur, according to a ...

“However, a more comprehensive assessment of the Cretaceous predatory dinosaur fauna from the Bahariya Oasis would require the recovery of more fossils from the site,” Dr Rauhut said.

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They were first described in 1931 by the German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach, who mistakenly dubbed the species the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. The specimen comprised skull ...