Discover the untold stories of Earth's mass extinctions through NBC's new series Surviving Earth, premiering June 4. Get a ...

A new sail-backed dinosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Discover everything about it, including what its sail was for!

34 million years ago, a truly colossal mammal roamed the plains of Central Asia. Paraceratherium, a distant relative of modern rhinoceroses, may have been the largest land mammal ever to live, ...

While The Dinosaurs is an entertaining watch, the glaring factual errors and omitted information raise questions about its educational value.

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

Among the strangest branches of the dinosaur family tree are the alvarezsauroids, small, bird‑like theropods that lived from the Jurassic into the Cretaceous. They don’t fit the image of sharp‑toothed ...

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 ...

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

Scientists wanted to know why the iconic triceratops had such an unusually large nose compared to most species on Earthj.

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

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