A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Scientists are studying the 60-million-year-old remains of a very very early resident of New Mexico. “This was a tree ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Using their monochrome coats as camouflage, these mammals blended into the shadows to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs at night ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...

Explore how early humans crafted tools from bones 1.5 million years ago, showcasing their advanced planning and cognitive ...