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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, ...

A recent discovery in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, has unveiled a new mammal species that dates back to the Late Cretaceous period, predating the rise of the dinosaurs by millions of years. The fossil ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown prehistoric mammal species that was among the largest of its time. The partial remains of the newly identified species were originally collected ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil from the early Cretaceous shows the skeletons of a smaller mammal biting a larger horned dinosaur, suggesting a much... This fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur captures ...

During the Cretaceous period 125 million years ago, a ravenous Repenomamus, an ancient mammal the size of an opossum, pounced on an unsuspecting Psittacosaurus—an herbivorous dinosaur more than three ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction thanks to their lifestyle. Reading time 2 minutes The end-Cretaceous ...

We’ve spent decades dreaming of resurrecting dinosaurs and turning them into tourist attractions, despite the very clear warnings laid out in Jurassic Park and its subsequent sequels. Some combination ...

Postcanine replacement in the gomphodont cynodont Diademodon / James A. Hopson -- Bimodal wear of mammalian teeth / R.G. Every and W.G. Kuhne -- The dentition of Morganucodon / J.R.E. Mills -- The ...

Resolving the timing and pattern of early placental mammal evolution has been confounded by conflict among divergence date estimates from interpretation of the fossil record and frommolecular-clock ...