A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. But we mammals did survive. The characteristics we now equate with “mammalness” are ...

The series has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, but does it hit the mark with its depiction of these creatures?

Steven Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic team up with Netflix for the stunning docuseries The Dinosaurs. Read our review.

In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...

Jack Seale of The Guardian gives it 3 out of 5 stars, in part for its photorealistic visual effects, but Morgan Freeman ’s ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, it was thought that each ring corresponded to a single year of age. But ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

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.

Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

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