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 ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

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

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

"Our findings challenge conventional views on upper jaw evolution," the researchers said in a statement. Compared with our distant cousins the reptiles, the faces of mammals are made more complex ...

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

That's enough to draw an inference for most mammals during that era, according to Caleb Brown, curator of dinosaur systematics and evolution at the Royal Tyrrel Museum in Drumheller, Alta.