A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

In a nutshell A remarkably well-preserved skull of Dacentrurus armatus found in Spain is the most complete stegosaur skull ...

Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the chances of this are actually vanishingly small, as the adaptations that allow ...

The researchers conducted two phylogenetic analyses to determine Mixodectes ... a specialist tree-dweller is in keeping with the wider pattern of mammals adapting to make use of tree habitats. These ...

Like humans, dogs, monkeys and other furry land animals, dolphins are mammals. This means they are warm-blooded and stay cozy in the ocean water thanks to a layer of fat called blubber.

To determine where Mixodectes pungens fits on the evolutionary tree, the research team conducted two phylogenetic analyses ... information about how ancient mammals diversified to fill newly ...

separate from other arboreal mammals. Scientists performed two phylogenetic analyses to determine its place in the evolutionary tree further. One suggested that mixodectids were archaic primates ...

a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two phylogenetic analyses. One analysis ...

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during ... the researchers noted. Two phylogenetic analyses performed to clarify the species’ evolutionary relationships ...

the pervasive presence of open-mouth signals and rapid mimicry in the mammal phylogenetic tree indicates the relevance of such visual mechanisms in shaping complex communication,” the ...