The researchers focused on bone articular fragments from therian mammals, a group that includes modern marsupials and ...

While this research marks the end of the project, the findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals responded to changing environments—a few million years before the asteroid impact ...

On both page and screen, we're used to seeing dinosaurs and prehistoric birds as vibrant creatures exhibiting unique and diverse patterns in color and texture. But what about the mammals roaming ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period Las Hoyas wetland. This image is not associated with the current study but demonstrates a dark-furred mammal ...

and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size (and perhaps larger) mammals emerged, suddenly free to fill the void. Over the next 42 million years ...

New research suggests a distinct lineage of elephant seals were well established in New Zealand at the time of human arrival.

See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, and learn about the work of pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning. Plus, look out for ...

A team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW) has successfully reactivated microscopic algae ...

A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea almost 7,000 years ago.

sea mammals, shorebirds, and plant life found all in one place. This extensive fossil record is being studied to understand the ecology of the prehistoric ocean that once covered the region.