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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive -- until now. A team has now identified the oldest ...