The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Some ancient traits were lost and had a major influence on mammal evolution. One of the significant losses among mammal ancestors was gastralia, or belly ribs. Early synapsids like Ophiacodon had ...

All living mammals today, including us, descend from the one line that survived. During the next 145 million years of evolution, the dominance of dinosaurs ensured that our distant mammalian ...

In the U.S., one tiny mammal is making waves in the scientific community by changing everything we thought we knew about ...

In mammals, there is good support for the latter two models, but less for the first possibility. Although non-neutral evolution at synonymous sites means that the genomic mutation rate has been ...

The brains of birds, reptiles, and mammals evolved independently, reveal two recent studies. These findings revolutionize our understanding of brain evolution. The pallium, a crucial brain region for ...

Science has published two studies, led by an Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and ...

mammal-like hyoids in the Mesozoic mammal evolution. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 19 July issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.-F. Zhou at Shenyang Normal ...

As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out, "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old to make the new." ...

AQUARTER of a century ago next April, the late Prof. E. D. Cope, struck by the remarkable fact that the molar teeth, both upper and lower, of all the mammals from the Puerco or lowest Eocene ...