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 ...

In A Nutshell A tiny, 250-million-year-old fossil from South Africa offers the first compelling evidence that an ancient ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

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 ...

Reconstruction of the appearance in life of a gorgonopsian in a floodplain of the Permian of Mallorca (Henry Sutherland Sharpe via Courthouse News) (CN) — Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands is well ...

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 ...

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: ...