About 55 million years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was the site of a major evolutionary makeover: Modern groups of mammals like the ancestors of the horse, deer, goats, primates, and opossumlike ...

It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last. By Jack Tamisiea Mammals are the brainiacs of the animal world. The brain of the sperm ...

LAWRENCE -- Supported with a five-year, $580,000 award from the National Science Foundation, scientists from the University of Kansas are departing this month to investigate how climate, plate ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, it appears that brawn was more important than brains for the mammals that managed to ...

A vast belch of gas from beneath the North Atlantic 55 million years ago may have warmed the planet and hold clues to threats from an even faster modern surge in greenhouse gases, scientists reported ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ...

Patriomanis americana is the only pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota), living or extinct, known from the western hemisphere. It derives from latest Eocene (Chadronian NALMA) deposits from central Wyoming ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

At head of title: Survey Department, Public Works Ministry. PRELIMINARY NOTE ON SOME NEW MAMMALS FROM THE UPPER EOCENE OF EGYPT BY CW ANDREWS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM NAT HIST AND HUGH JL BEADNELL OF THE ...