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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For years, key fossils were thought by many paleontologists to be juvenile examples of ...

A pivotal new dinosaur study is finally settling a fierce, four-decade-long debate: Was the small tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus a distinct species or merely a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex? Now, a remarkably ...

Anyone who's been following the big prehistoric discoveries of the last couple decades will know that dinosaurs don't look like they did in "Jurassic Park" any more. That is to say, they never ...

Dinosaurs are among the most researched prehistoric animals, yet most people carry outdated ideas about them. Films, old textbooks, and childhood museum trips helped lock in images that science has ...