University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...

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

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

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

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would have helped them hide from dinosaurs ...

elegans as our bread and the evolutionary time, or the years since the two species last shared an ancestor, as the filling. But calculating evolutionary time and organizing animals isn’t easy!

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

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the treetops like modern-day flying squirrels," Li Ruoshuang, the paper's first ...

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 ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones ...