Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

Two 160 million-year-old mammal fossils discovered in China show that the forerunners of mammals in the Jurassic Period evolved to glide and live in trees. With long limbs, long hand and foot fingers, ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other animals Riley Black - Science Correspondent By examining the fossils of ...

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The 42-million-year-old predator, with its cat-like appearance and elongated fangs, was a sign of things to come. Reading time 4 minutes Mammals with a nearly exclusive preference for meat are ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown prehistoric mammal species that was among the largest of its time. The partial remains of the newly identified species were originally collected ...