Earliest-known mammal, identified by its fossilized teeth, was digging burrows while dinosaurs were still evolving
This 'shrew-like' animal is surprisingly old.
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Fossil Friday: Adalatherium, the largest mammal to run with the dinosaurs
To be honest it probably ran away from them, not with them.
Paleontologists uncover 66-million-year-old bizarre mammal that shouldn’t exist
The ancient mammal "bends and even breaks a lot of rules," said researchers.
Drought and human expansion are driving the platypus extinct
One of the world's most unique mammals is heading for extinction.
What’s the difference between birds and mammals
The differences are too many to say all at once.
Jurassic-era mammalian relative found with 38 of its babies’ skulls
Although this mammalian forerunner still reproduced like a reptile, the fossils shed much light on our own evolution.
Early mammal fossil shows how the Pangaea supercontinent split up
Talk about a groundbreaking discovery.
10 of the Weirdest Prehistoric Creatures
Eons ago, many millennia before written history, bizarre animals roamed the Earth.
This rat-like creature is the earliest ancestor of mankind
In a way, we're all the descendants of these rats.
The American pika is being killed off by climate change
They may be the cutest animal in the country, but we're cooking the d'awww out of them.
Great Barrier Reef rodent becomes first extinct mammal at the hand of climate change
Great Barrier Reef's only endemic mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys, is now officially extinct, scientists say.
Brilliant GIF shows how Humans, Birds and Insects Breathe
Three different ways to breathe: Mammals, birds and insects breathe in different ways, as exemplified above. Humans, as mammals, inhale ...
The Colugo (flying lemur): the cutest mammalian glider
The flying lemur is the most accomplished mammalian glider.
Earliest tree-clinging and burrowing mammals show they weren’t afraid of dinosaurs
Although mammals surfaced only 20 million years after the first dinosaurs evolved, there's a general consensus that mammals were shadowed ...
New fossils throw mammalian family tree into disarray
A fossil of a small, forest-floor-dwelling animal called Megaconus puts a big question mark on the evolution of mammals - ...
Mammals Can ‘Choose’ Sex of Offspring, Study Finds
An extremely challenging study published by a team of researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine claims that through some ...
Earliest mammal pinpointed suggests the ancestry expanded after dinosaurs died off
For the past twenty years there's been a debate whether the mammal explosion that eventually made the class of animals ...
Dracula mammal lived with the dinosaurs in Transylvania
Well it may be a bit of overreaction, but with the Halloween and all, you just have to call it: ...
Sabre tooth ferret like mammal unearthed in Patagonia
A recent discovery of an extinct mammal called Cronopia promises to help scientists trace the ascent and spread of mammals. ...
Mammals, half way extinct??
The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...
Blue whales singing lower every year, baffled scientists say
Blue whales are not only the biggest living creatures in the world right now, but the biggest ever to have ...
