Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...
A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.
The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur ...
The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery ...
Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...
An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...
Feb. 24, 2021 — A new fossil discovery is central to primate ancestry and adds to our understanding of how life on land recovered after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ...