The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests. The evolution of ankle and foot bones ...

It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last. By Jack Tamisiea Mammals are the brainiacs of the animal world. The brain of the sperm ...

About 55 million years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was the site of a major evolutionary makeover: Modern groups of mammals like the ancestors of the horse, deer, goats, primates, and opossumlike ...

(CN) — Researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder identified three new species of prehistoric mammals through fossils that enhance scientific understanding of how quickly mammals evolved ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, it appears that brawn was more important than brains for the mammals that managed to ...

Modern mammals are known for their big brains. But new analyses of mammal skulls from creatures that lived shortly after the dinosaur mass extinction show that those brains weren’t always a foregone ...

Researchers in Colorado have discovered the fossilized skull of a tiny, now-extinct mammal that lived around 65 million years ago, in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike. The newly ...

Researchers report the discovery of several sets of fossilized tracks, likely from the brown bear-sized Coryphodon, that represent the earliest known evidence of mammals gathering near an ocean. Today ...

Meet Beornus honeyi — but you can call him Beorn. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Early on their quest to reach the Lonely ...

The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests. A surge of evolution following the mass ...