However, “American Primeval,” a new limited series on Netflix from Mark L. Smith — the writer of the Academy Award-winning “The Revenant” — takes a different approach. Much like how ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. Credit: Mark ...

Heroes are in short supply in the Western hellscape painted by “American Primeval.” Many have recently commented on the wild historical inaccuracies of which the Netflix miniseries is guilty.

There are plenty of assertions that the popular series “American Primeval” — billed as historical fiction — accurately portrayed Native culture by using Native actors and cultural settings.

Three belonged to a Mosasaurus, a large aquatic creature that measured up to 12m. Five other teeth are believed to have been those of a Dyrosaurus phosphaticus, a distant ancestor of crocodiles.