An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how ...

Kangaroos are iconic Australian animals who have long been used as a symbol within the country to represent moving forward.

Despite their mistreatment by popular culture, Norway lemmings turn out to have an interesting evolutionary history.

Placental mammals evolved during the later part of the Cretaceous period. These animals include modern mammals. Nearly all of them were smaller than today’s rabbits.

Hammerhead Shark. Photo by Ben Phillips, via Unsplash. Placental viviparity in sharks represents an extraordinary evolutionary convergence with mammals. This reproductive strategy evolved ...

Euarchontoglires are one of the four main clades of living placental mammals; the remaining are Afrotheria, Xenarthra and Laurasiatheria. It includes Euarchonta (primates, tree-shrews and flying ...

A new look at the skull of a tiny extinct mammal has revealed to researchers that it did not belong to the primate order as previously thought, reversing a decades-long notion about the identity of ...

By Larry Penny Long Island is a pretty big area, 100 miles long by up to 50 miles wide. It’s not the way it was before the builders went crazy. We once had prairie chickens, passenger pigeons ...

For placental mammals, there are a couple of fossils from around 65m years ago, just after the mass extinction of dinosaurs. These include Purgatorius, considered an ancestor of primates (and thus ...

For placental mammals, there are a couple of fossils from around 65 million years ago, just after the mass extinction of dinosaurs. These include Purgatorius, considered an ancestor of primates ...