The study of palaeontology has long provided a window into the dynamic evolutionary history of dinosaurs and their avian descendants. Recent research has uncovered intricate details regarding the ...

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

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Where are all the east coast dinosaurs? Where are all the east coast dinosaurs? Why don’t we find famous species like Triceratops in Central Park? Turns out, evolution and geology came together to ...

Rhinos’ evolutionary relationships became a little clearer with the sequencing of the oldest proteins yet. Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced.

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed molecules from extinct relatives of rhinos and other large mammals, have pushed ...

This piece first appeared in the Front Matter section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six ...

A femur discovered in Zambia could well rewrite part of dinosaur history. This fossil, 225 million years old, belongs to a silesaur, a reptile closely related to dinosaurs. Silesaurs, long considered ...

Chris Doughty, an associate professor in NAU's informatics department, was writing a paper for a conference and had the idea to test a theory about sauropods, forests and fruit. Doughty created a ...