For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...
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 ...
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, ...
Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...
During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.