Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The first prehistoric mammals were small, rodent-like creatures designed to hide from their bigger, more spectacular neighbors. A new study found that their coloration reflected this lifestyle.

New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period Las Hoyas wetland. This image is not associated with the current study but demonstrates a dark-furred mammal ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals ... time that the earliest dinosaurs first showed up. Early mammals were small, about the size of rats and badgers.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

By analysing small-fossilised bone fragments ... the findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals responded to changing environments – a few million years before the asteroid ...