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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...