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

Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that lived between 70 ...

Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

Scientists have linked a fossilized elephant skull from Kashmir with another from Turkmenistan, identifying them as a distinct species of Palaeoloxodon. These findings could fill gaps in the ...

A study published in the the journal PLOS ONE announced the discovery of a new species of prehistoric mammal named Heleocola ...

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 ...

The researchers extended their analysis to eight exemplary fossil species from four continents spanning 300 million years of evolution. The species ranged from the 35g proto-mammal Megazostrodon ...

One of the most famous fossils in the camp depicts a cat-sized mammal seemingly engaged in a battle to the death with a small dinosaur. The second category of fossils are flattened, highly ...

3D scans of the fossil jawbone of the mammal H. piceanus. The earlier fossils were originally thought to belong to other ancient mammal species, Aquiladelphis incus and Glasbius piceanus.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Dinosaur Fossil Revealed After Heavy Rains In Brazil Because of this swampy environment, the newly identified mammal’s name roughly means "swamp dweller" in Latin, according to the University of ...