New fossils reveal ancient carnivorous mammals in Himalayan foothills
A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) Professor Dr. Steven Jasinski, has ...
When the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit, Mammals Were Already on the Move
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
Tiny Fossils Reveal Mammals Left the Trees Long Before the Asteroid Impact
Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...
Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid, research reveals
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
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Radioisotopes could help reveal details about mammal evolution
Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...
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Evolution just keeps creating the same deep-ocean mutation
A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...
Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...