It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...

The researchers focused on bone articular fragments from therian mammals, a group that includes modern marsupials and placentals.

While this research marks the end of the project, the findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals responded to changing environments – a few million years before the asteroid impact ...

In "Prehistoric World: Over 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic," readers will learn about the warm-blooded animals that rose to prominence once the dinosaurs ...

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...

On both page and screen, we're used to seeing dinosaurs and prehistoric birds as vibrant creatures exhibiting unique and diverse patterns in color and texture. But what about the mammals roaming ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period Las Hoyas wetland. This image is not associated with the current study but demonstrates a dark-furred mammal ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years prior to the dinosaur-extinguishing asteroid impact. The study ...

From the top of Shifting Sands dune in the Serengeti Plain of Africa a million mammals are in motion. Wildebeests. Zebras. Gazelles. The plain is black with them. It is wildebeest calving season ...

Life that survived the so-called Great Dying repopulated the planet, diversified into freshly exposed ecological niches, and gave rise to new creatures, including rodent-size mammals and the first ...