A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

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

A new book offers a fascinating journey from insects to apes and a forceful rebuttal to bigotry showing what the incredible ...

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

Kangaroos and wallabies are the only hopping species heavier than five kilogrammes (11 pounds), the researchers said. Some ...

Only small theropod dinosaurs survived the extinction; the ancestors of modern-day birds. Our small mammal ancestors probably ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.