Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

New simulation suggests millions of undiscovered terrestrial species, revealing hidden patterns in biodiversity and animal ...

Blue-green land and waterscapes act as ecological corridors across land and water in creating an ecological continuity in ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

"Just as blue sunlight scatters in the Earth's atmosphere and makes the sun look slightly less blue, light from a strong blue, rich white street light enters your eyeball, scatters around in your ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

This transformation of the plant life probably had some effect on the mammals, forcing many of them towards terrestrial habitats as they became accustomed to the new environments. The mammalian ...

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...