More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The investigators, headed by Professor Christine Janis, used fossil bones of marsupials and placental mammals excavated in Western North America, the only place with a good representation of ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

Allen Thomson on this subject in a late number of NATURE induces me again to draw attention to some objections I offered to the placental classification ... If this system fails to satisfy so ...

CREDIT: Chester et al. 2025 “This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs,” study co-author ...

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 researchers compared the new Mixodectes pungens skeleton to those of other placental mammals, including plesiadapiforms, euprimates, treeshrews, and colugos. This comparison illuminated its ...

Interestingly, these findings reveal that, although early mammals significantly differ biologically and ecologically, their color system remained mostly unchanged. That was until the ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

Of course, I'm not talking about the college basketball postseason. It's time for March Mammal Madness, baby. The viral sensation — which has been around for more than a decade — tasks ...