More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

"It's been a complete upheaval, says Mark Springer, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Riverside. "We've come up with a very different family tree for mammals." Many ...

Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two ...

The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.