Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...
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, ...
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...
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, ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.