Northern Illinois doesn’t have any dinosaurs ... which led to dinosaurs, to birds, to mammals and ultimately, to us. “Mazon Creek fossils are extraordinarily important to studying the ...

Northern Illinois doesn’t have any dinosaurs ... which led to dinosaurs, to birds, to mammals and, ultimately, to us. “Mazon Creek fossils are extraordinarily important to studying the ...

They are expected to appear in parts of southern Wisconsin, much of northern and central Illinois, eastern Iowa, and small portions ... lived vertebrates ― mammals or birds or something like ...

W ith 60% of Oregon designated as public land, a trip to the Beaver State is ideal for nature lovers, who can explore everywhere from high desert climates in the east to verdant f ...

Hantavirus isn’t just in deer mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study from the University of New Mexico, which found the virus in a quarter of more than 1,400 small mammals tested across ...

In particular, Dr. Jasinski and his co-authors focused on fossils collected from the Haritalyangar region in northern ... a small fossil feline, in addition to two new species of fossil mammals ...

Sometimes, it is an enigma: in the 2000s a “small caged mammal” appeared, unexpectedly, in the ONS’s calculations. The basket itself, in its modern form, was born in 1947. The political mood ...

Some — like Illinois’ own U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin — have championed reforms to give small businesses more options on how to process credit cards. The legislation, called the Credit Card ...

But the anatomical details of Phosphatherium fossils found in Morocco are clear that the small mammal shared some key traits in common with elephants to the exclusion of other mammals, such as ...

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 ...

The early mammals in this study — like many during the Mesozoic Era — were small creatures much like rodents, shrews or moles. They also appear to have had similarly gray and brown coats.