BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

Mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs grew more slowly and lived longer than they do today, analysis of fossils found on the Isle of Skye has revealed. A team led by researchers at National Museums ...

Among the groups with a secondary palate were the weasel-like cynodonts, such as the Triassic species Thrinaxodon, who passed the secondary palate on to their mammal descendants. Fossils of the ...

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 ...

Fossil of the early sail-backed synapsid Dimetrodon, from 290 million years ago, one of the species investigated in the study. Credit: Christina Byrd. Museum of ...

A team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil in northwestern Colorado, revealing a new kind of mammal that lived alongside the dinosaurs. CU Boulder Professor Jaelyn Eberle and her colleagues ...

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.

Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...