An international research team has uncovered 270-million-year-old fossil tracks belonging to a dog-like predator ...

Learn about the complicated the history of mammals and their disappearance. In 2003, a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost ...

For over a century, scientists have been captivated by the mystery of how mammals evolved from sprawling creatures resembling lizards to the graceful, upright walkers we see today. This fundamental ...

An artist's illustration of an ancient platypus-like creature against a gray background. Around 70 million years ago, a small, furry, platypus-like creature shuffled along the banks of an ancient lake ...

1. Background: 1.1 History and rationale ; 1.2. Southern Africa ; 1.3. Mammals ; 1.4. Sites ; 1.5. Mapping ; 1.6. Dating -- 2. The Eocene: 2.1. Eocene mammals ; 2.2 ...

Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 million years ago, are providing insight into the early ...

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On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

Since the late eighteenth century, fossils of bizarre extinct creatures have been described from the Americas, revealing a previously unimagined chapter in the history of mammals. The most bizarre of ...

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