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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

More mammals were living on the ground several ... “The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any influence from dinosaurs.” ...

The findings suggest that mammals were adapting to terrestrial life well before the end of the Cretaceous period. The team discovered signs that these mammals were moving towards a ground-based ...