The fight scene, preserved in a fossil discovered in China, suggests that small mammals preyed on the dinosaurs that ruled Earth during the Cretaceous period more than previously thought ...

Two incredibly rare fossils found on Scotland's Isle of Skye are rewriting our understanding of how mammals evolved. While modern small mammals live as little as a year, one of the first to roam ...

ONO, Fukui Prefecture--A mammal fossil unearthed from a geological formation here is 127 million years old and dates from the early Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs dominated the Earth ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that lived between 70 million and 75 million years ago and has never been ...

Paleontologists analyze concretions—hard orbs of minerals that can collect around material like bone—and discover fossils of mammals that lived on Earth just after an asteroid killed the ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

Stem mammaliaforms (also known as 'stem mammals') are long-extinct relatives ... and fossorial and subterranean specialization of fossil docodonts indicate that the stem mammaliaforms had very ...

This work forms a natural experiment in evolution responding to changes in the environment. We are using state-of-the-art techniques to study dwarf mammal fossils. This is giving us accurate dates for ...

A tooth unearthed by a seven-year-old boy at a fossil festival has been identified as being a rare find from an ancient mammal. James, from Wareham in Dorset found the tooth in sand brought for ...

The Museum's fossil mammal collection contains an estimated 250,000 specimens from around the world, and is rich in type and figured material. The collection includes historical research ...

"We see a lot of animals that were living in the water quite happily, like sharks, rays and guitarfish." Dinosaur Fossil Revealed After Heavy Rains In Brazil Because of this swampy environment, the ...