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

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

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

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

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

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, ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

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

suggesting that mixodectids occupied a distinctive ecological niche among arboreal mammals of the time. To determine where ...

"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 ...

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