Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The living mammal family tree is full of diverse species–big blue ...

Seventy-six million years ago, a group of small mammals huddled in a burrow in what’s now Montana. They were good diggers—most likely furry—and petite. “They could sit comfortably in the palm of your ...

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 ...

A large study reveals the way relative brain size of mammals changed over the last 150 million years. Scientists from Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have pieced ...

Every spring I bring my students to the desert of northwestern New Mexico, just north of Chaco Canyon, where the ancestral Pueblo people built a great city out of rocks a millennium ago. As we hike ...

From reptile-like ancestors to humans, the new book The Rise and Reign of the Mammals tackles the diversity of mammals like us. The following is an excerpt from The Rise and Reign of Mammals: A New ...

A lack of female animal models in research has led to a clear failure to scientifically study sex differences. In 2017, Susanne Wolf, a neuroscientist from the Max Delbruck Center (MDC) in Germany, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Despite having the critical and even miraculous ingredients to ...

That dinosaurs ate the mammals that scurried beneath their feet is not in doubt. Now an extraordinary fossil newly described in Scientific Reports, unearthed by a team led by Gang Han at Hainan ...

Dinosaurs so thoroughly dominated the ancient world that they suppressed the evolutionary possibilities open for mammals. This notion has been around for decades now, and it seems to be backed up by ...

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 ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...