Uintatheres first appeared around 58 million years ago, less than 10 million years after the asteroid impact that wiped out ...

A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, allowing researchers to examine the earliest evidence for the evolution of sucklin ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one ...

A crab scurrying sideways across the beach looks almost comically awkward, yet this strange gait conceals a surprisingly ...

Covered in fur and nursing their young with milk... the definition of a "mammal" that we think of in our daily lives is ...

A gorgeous new fossil of an early mammal relative is giving scientists an astonishing insight into how our own ancient ancestors may have evolved over 165 million years ago. The new fossil has been ...

Near-complete genomes from eight Myotis bat species suggest that viral defense, DNA-damage responses, cancer-related pathways and extreme longevity have evolved through overlapping biological ...

To find out, Nieder and his colleague Philipp Schmidbauer put two carrion crows through the same task the monkeys faced, ...

Scientists have found the earliest-known fossil of a mammal-like animal that lived more than 160 million years ago in the mid-Jurassic period and may have hunted fish and salamander.

The European Wildlife Photographer of the Year ( EWPY) competition is now in its 26th year. Amateur and professional ...

The fossil of an early relative of mammals that shares some adaptions seen in the modern platypus, from the Jurassic period of China, is described in this week’s Nature. The remains, which include an ...

Two carrion crows trained on a classic test of perception judged which way a cloud of dots was drifting in under a quarter of ...