Researchers examined small fossilized limb bone fragments from marsupial and placental mammals in Western North America.
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
Recent research conducted by the University of Bristol hypothesizes that mammals started to adapt to a more ground-oriented ...
The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.
A team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has revived algae that lay dormant in Baltic Sea sediment for nearly 7,000 years.
Volcanic ash in Turkey has unlocked the precise ages of key fossil sites—reshaping what we know about mammal evolution and ...
A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.
A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...
Around 150 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, research results suggest that early mammals were likely covered in dark brown fur. This indicates that mammals at the time were ...