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

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

A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) Professor Dr. Steven Jasinski, has ...

In other words, ground-dwelling mammals seemed to have fared better during the end-Cretaceous extinction. Ultimately, the study sheds light on the emergence of a lifestyle that, millions of years ...

Researchers examined small fossilized limb bone fragments from marsupial and placental mammals in Western North America.

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

Murphy, a National Academy of Sciences member and Texas A&M University System Regents Professor, is Texas A&M’s third ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

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