A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Netflix is not exactly known for doing things on a modest scale, and their most recent foray into natural history, The Dinosaurs, is no different.

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Researchers working near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil unearthed a twisted fossilized jawbone and couldn’t figure out what they were looking at. Was it broken? Deformed? Did i ...

A newly discovered 275-million-year-old species found near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil had a jaw unlike anything seen before — and it’s forcing scientists to rethink when ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Yes, there are plenty of big-budget visual effects of prehistoric creatures in Steven Spielberg’s natural history show. But the voiceover is the real draw ...

A new miniseries, narrated by Morgan Freeman, combines recent fossil research with cinematic reconstruction.

In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing—a mystery known as the “Great Unconformity." ...

The newer, more complete specimen allowed the team to finally map the globally-distributed group's strange anatomy ...