Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

Anacondas are some of the largest snakes in the world, reaching impressive sizes which have earned them a fearsome reputation ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how gigantic animals during the Miocene were replaced by ...

Aim: To analyse the diversity dynamics of Miocene mammalian faunas in the Iberian Peninsula in order to determine whether the patterns are related to the dispersal of taxa from other areas into this ...

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

New research led by the University of Washington suggests that two different climate transitions millions of years ago fueled ...

Ancient climate cooling reshaped carnivoran bodies, with fossils revealing how habitats drove species diversity worldwide.

Neoepiblemidae (Caviomorpha) includes South American hystricognath rodents that together with Chinchillidae and Dinomyidae compose the clade Chinchilloidea. Despite the considerable advance in ...

Toward a continental Asian Neogene biostratigraphic and geochronological framework / Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius -- Neogene land mammal stages/ages of China : toward the ...

1. Background: 1.1 History and rationale ; 1.2. Southern Africa ; 1.3. Mammals ; 1.4. Sites ; 1.5. Mapping ; 1.6. Dating -- 2. The Eocene: 2.1. Eocene mammals ; 2.2 ...