The world’s oldest mammal has been identified using fossil dental records – predating the previously confirmed earliest mammal by about 20 million years – in a new discovery hailed as ...

A visit to the world's largest marine mammal hospital Sea lions are part of the landscape and soundscape on the California coast. And when one of them is found sick or injured, it often ends up at ...

Badlands National Park is considered home to one of the world's richest deposits of mammal fossil beds. The Oglala Lakota Nation, the second-largest American Indian Reservation in the United ...

Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 125 million years ago, a feisty mammal the size of a domestic cat attacked a dinosaur three times its size. CNN values your feedback 1.

An inside look at the “Killer Pig from Hell”, Archaeotherium. By Riley Black. March 13, 2010. ... They even have their own YouTube feed with lots of 3D renderings of fossil animals, ...

That dinosaurs ate the mammals that scurried beneath their feet is not in doubt. Now an extraordinary fossil newly described in Scientific Reports, unearthed by a team led by Gang Han at Hainan ...

A fossil found in 2012 in the Chinese province of Liaoning appeared to show a Psittacosaurus, a plant-eating Triceratops relative, entangled with a Repenomamus, a smaller mammal.

I love the work that Larry Witmer and his students do at Ohio University. Not only is it cutting-edge anatomical research that helps us better understand prehistoric organisms, but the Witmer lab ...

One of the better-known entelodonts was Archaeotherium, which were common in western North America. These were large animals, several times the size of modern pigs, with the skull reaching near ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in northeastern China has revealed a twisted prehistoric food chain – a dinosaur species that devoured a mammal, which itself may have preyed on dinosaurs. The ...