We here describe the first partial cranium of Hyaenodon leptorhynchus, the type species of the taxonomically diverse and widely distributed hypercarnivorous genus Hyaenodon (Hyaenodonta). The cranium ...

Aim: To analyse the fossil species assemblages of rodents and lagomorphs from the European Neogene in order to assess what factors control small mammal biogeography at a deep-time evolutionary ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

New research led by the University of Washington suggests that two different climate transitions millions of years ago fueled ...

Ecological reconstruction of giant rhinos and their accompanying fauna in northwest China during the Oligocene. The giant rhino, genus Paraceratherium, was a hornless, long-necked herbivore living in ...

About 25 million years ago, giant rhinos more than 16 feet tall roamed the Earth. They are considered the largest land mammal that ever lived — but their evolutionary history and dispersal across Asia ...

Long before humans walked the planet, a massive creature ruled the forests and open plains of ancient Eurasia. Paraceratherium, a hornless giant and a distant relative of today’s rhinoceroses, lived ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after Earth’s climate shifted from swampy ...

The remains of a 26.5-million-year-old giant, hornless rhino — one of the largest mammals ever to walk Earth — have been discovered in northwestern China, a new study finds. The newly identified ...

The extinction snuffed out more than half of the species in five mammal groups. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About 34 million ...

It’s a big deal anytime researchers discover the remains of an unknown prehistoric species. But a recent find is a really big deal. As in the largest land mammal to ever walk the earth big. The newly ...