Over recent decades, humanity has witnessed a remarkable and continuous increase in lifespan. However, this advancement has ...

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

Published in Palaeontology, this study offers fresh insights into mammalian evolution, providing evidence that the ecological shifts in the late Cretaceous period were crucial to the development ...

New radioisotopic datings of volcanic fossil sites are helping researchers unravel the evolution of mammals. The University ...

Imagine a world where furry mammals scuttle under the feet of gigantic dinosaurs, not yet destined to rule the Earth. It’s a ...

Exploring the reasons behind human and mammalian hairlessness, this article discusses the evolutionary advantages of sparse ...

According to the new study published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, these new fossil specimens add important new information to our collective knowledge of carnivorous mammals. The ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

An international research team co-led by the University of Oulu has successfully dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to between 7 and ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.