From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Scientists Analyze Fossils of Mouse-Like Mammal That Existed With Dinosaurs, Find Major Growth Transformation It is no secret ...

There was, briefly, a risk that FT Alphaville’s recent Art of the Chart show would occur without any small caged mammal representation. But the arc of the mammalian universe bends towards content, and ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.