Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.

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

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

A new fossil discovery in northern China provides significant insights into the evolution of early carnivores, revealing an ancient predator with unique feeding adaptations.

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

More than a dozen mammal species shimmer and glint purple and green, like precious opals. Their fur is iridescent, meaning its colour appears to change depending on the animal’s orientation relative ...

If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly ...

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 ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...