Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

Contrary to popular belief, the rise of land mammals may not be solely linked to the disappearance of dinosaurs. A study ...

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

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

New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...

A group of well-preserved fossils from a variety of species unearthed in China have offered scientists the chance to look at the fur of small mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. By examining the ...