"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

Recent discoveries have shown that brightly colored crests and eye-catching patterns adorned many dinosaurs. Meanwhile, our earliest mammalian ancestors survived these flamboyant predators by being as ...

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Paleontologists have discovered a new prehistoric mammal species in Colorado that lived during the age of the dinosaurs and may have been a swamp-dweller. In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, ...

Life looked different after an asteroid crashed into the planet around 66 million years ago. The dinosaurs died out, the arboreal mammals declined, and the terrestrial mammals thrived. The traditional ...

According to most experts, the first mammal was Morganucodon, a small, shrew-like rodent that appeared during the Jurassic Period, approximately 200 million years ago. It weighed a few ounces and ...

Explores the world of prehistoric mammals, comparing them to their modern descendants. Pop-up sections feature three-dimensional skeletons and some pull tabs.

This is what Novaculadon mirabilis may have looked like. The spots and stripes are speculative. Likely this animal could have sat in one hand. The lower jaw is just 16.5 mm long, only 4 mm longer than ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a lake lined with coarse sediment was battered by heavy waves and storms. The water here was completely devoid of oxygen, but the land around the lake held ...

Describes several unusual animals that roamed the lands and swam in the seas after the dinosaurs died out. Features pop-up and movable illustrations.

In the ancient rock formations of Greenland, the tiny tooth of a never-before-seen species was discovered. mahlersilvan via Unsplash Hundreds of millions of years ago, a lake lined with coarse ...