A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

A young boy's desert exploration led to an incredible find. Jude Sparks stumbled upon a fossilised tusk and skull. This ...

A sharp sense of hearing is a virtue for mammals, especially for those who must stay wary of predators. Mammalian hearing is believed to have developed quite early, but a new study suggests that its ...

Over the past 125,000 years, the average size of mammals on the Earth has shrunk. And humans are to blame. That's the conclusion of a new study of the fossil record by paleo-biologist Felisa Smith of ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

Therapsids, the ancient ancestors of mammals, were integral to Earth’s ecosystems during the middle to late Permian period. (CREDIT: Bruce Aleksander / Flickr) Therapsids, the ancient relatives of ...

A new look at a fossil mammal with powerful front legs for digging is clearing up questions about the origin of a group of strange and scaly modern-day creatures called pangolins. First excavated in ...

Recent discoveries have shown that brightly colored crests and eye-catching patterns adorned many dinosaurs. Meanwhile, our earliest mammalian ancestors survived these flamboyant predators by being as ...

A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) Professor Dr. Steven Jasinski, has published a study on fossil carnivoran mammals from the foothills of the ...

On the geological timescale, humans’ stay on the planet earth amounts to little more than the blink of an eye. Before we emerged, earlier creatures enjoyed golden ages for more than twice as long as ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Scientists are studying the 60-million-year-old remains of a very very early resident of New Mexico. “This was a tree dwelling mammal, weighing about 3 pounds. So it would’ve been ...