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 study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

What you’d be less likely to notice are your closest relatives. Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study ...

when the diversity of our mammal ancestors exploded. But Neil isn’t yet convinced. “This is mostly a Jurassic sample with only one specimen from the Eary Cretaceous,” adds Neil. “The idea that ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

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

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

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...