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

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

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

These new findings have implications for our understanding of mammalian evolution and hints at a future where we can reconstruct every era of the distant past in technicolor. “When I was growing ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research led by the University of Bristol has revealed.

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 ...

Chang-fu Zhou The team examined six fossils of extinct mammal relatives discovered in the Yanliao and Jehol biotas in China. These deposits are renowned for preserving fossils in great detail, ...

But it’s not yet clear what the dates have to say about the evolution of mammals, apes, and humans as the researchers haven’t fully described the fossils found at these sites, he says.