LAWRENCE -- Supported with a five-year, $580,000 award from the National Science Foundation, scientists from the University of Kansas are departing this month to investigate how climate, plate ...

Just looking at The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth Rose, with its Henri Rousseau-style jacket picture, catapults the reader right into enchanted Early Eocene life. The book is a scholarly ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 31 (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 ...

During the land-to-water transition in the Eocene epoch, the cetacean skeleton underwent modifications to accommodate life in the seas. These changes are well-documented in the fossil record. The ...

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 ...

Patriomanis americana is the only pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota), living or extinct, known from the western hemisphere. It derives from latest Eocene (Chadronian NALMA) deposits from central Wyoming ...

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 ...

We here describe the first partial cranium of Hyaenodon leptorhynchus, the type species of the taxonomically diverse and widely distributed hypercarnivorous genus Hyaenodon (Hyaenodonta). The cranium ...

At head of title: Survey Department, Public Works Ministry. PRELIMINARY NOTE ON SOME NEW MAMMALS FROM THE UPPER EOCENE OF EGYPT BY CW ANDREWS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM NAT HIST AND HUGH JL BEADNELL OF THE ...

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