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 ...

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete fossil of a tiny dinosaur that is helping to solve a long-standing puzzle about a strange group of prehistoric animals. The fossil, about 90 million ...

“The Flintstones” may now be considered historical fiction. A new paper published in the journal Current Biology suggests that human ancestors lived with dinosaurs for a short time before the ...

“The earliest human fossils don’t turn up until long after the dinosaurs and there are no mixed remains.” When studying human origins, “you don’t see the first ancestral humans until about 2.2 million ...

A microbiologist named João Pedro de Magalhães has proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes. de Magalhães ...

All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience aging during their lives. Some animals' bodies do not gradually ...

Human aging may have been influenced by millions of years of dinosaur domination according to a new theory from a leading aging expert. The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis has been proposed by ...

Dinosaurs have fascinated humans for centuries, even though they never overlapped with humankind. Still, we know enough about their characteristics to imagine living together. A paleontologist helped ...