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

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

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 ...

DALLAS (SMU) – Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was home to terrifying sea monsters, a tenacious mammal and a ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Reconstruction of Swaindelphys. Credit: Kristen Tietjen. A newly described ancient mammal discovered in Texas is turning heads—not just for its size, but for what it reveals about life millions of ...

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like mammal that is reported to be the largest marsupial found in the North ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, ...

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...