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, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While there is little doubt that many a Mesozoic mammal became a meal for a dinosaur, it may come as a surprise to learn that some mammals also dined on dinos. A dramatic fossil ...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA…An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ruling the planet. New work on how each group raised its young suggests the ...

DENVER (CBS4)-- A new, prehistoric mammal has been discovered and it is described as "beyond bizarre." Paleontologists at the Denver Musuem of Nature and Science were part of a team of researchers ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified a bizarre, previously unknown mammal that lived 66 million years ago in what is now Madagascar, casting new light on the evolution of this animal group. The badger-like ...

Some Mammal Traits Show Up a Lot Earlier and in Things That Weren’t Mammals at All. Lots of the traits we think of as defining us as mammals show up pretty early, during the time of the dinosaurs. And ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A prehistoric opossum-sized critter dubbed the “crazy beast” that inhabited Madagascar at the end of the age of dinosaurs is providing scientists insight into early mammalian ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We all know the story by now. What was ...

The Mesozoic era, traditionally renowned as the age of dinosaurs, also marks a period of remarkable innovation in the evolution of early mammals. Mammaliaforms diversified into a variety of ecological ...