Paleontologists have discovered a new species of the extinct armadillo genus Parutaetus from fossilized osteoderms found in ...

New Study Reveals Now-Bone Dry Egyptian Desert Was Home to Ancient Relatives of Manatees 40 Million Years Ago Experts suggest that adorable relatives of sea cows and dugongs once dominated Egypt's ...

Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was found high up in the Himalayas.

Scientists from the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University come out to Wyoming every summer to find fossils from the earliest ...

The fossils belong to a species of amphisbaenian from the Eocene epoch, about 50 million years ago, according to a study published Nov. 21 in the peer-reviewed Zoological Journal of the Linnean ...

But until recently, one animal was missing: Chicago’s own official mammal, the little brown bat. UWI has been making up for lost time, and last week Assistant Director Liza Lehrer shared an update on ...

A new study predicts a grim future for humanity as Earth's continents drift towards forming a supercontinent. This will lead to extreme temperatures, reaching 40-50°C, making survival impossible ...

The period is known as Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), when ... isotopes in fossil teeth of small horse-like ungulate mammals that once roamed in these forests,” Prof.

The Orders of Mammals, Bull. A M.N.H., 27, p. 464; see also pp. 304–307, 467, 468. "The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition." Baltimore, 1922, pp. 99–107 ...

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 ...