Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

According to the researchers, their conclusions about the facial development of embryonic mice also appears to apply to us ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

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

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

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This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...