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. The study ...

Photographic Views/Shutterstock.com An animal needs to meet strict criteria to achieve the definition of being a mammal, but there’s a good reason for that. Recognizing familiar traits that exist ...

Apr. 4, 2025 — New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn a deadly pathogen into a harmless bug or supercharge ...

But what about the mammals roaming the earth alongside them? In a new study published in Science, an international team of scientists has discovered that early mammals had dark and dull fur, no matter ...

What you’d be less likely to notice are your closest relatives. Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study ...

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. The study, ...

Seals are mammals, as they possess all the required traits that make an animal a mammal. They are warm-blooded, they are vertebrates, they have fur, they have a live birth, and mothers feed their ...

The findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals adapted to changing environments well before the asteroid impact reshaped life on Earth.

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study providing clues about how those mammals evolved as they faced giant predators.

Before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, mammals were already adapting to life on the ground. This may have been due to changes in vegetation, not predators. Millions of years before the asteroid ...

Early mammals had dark inconspicuous fur and only came out at night until dinosaurs became extinct, scientists believe. A study of colouration of mammals that lived in the Mesozoic era – around ...

Steven Jasinski, has published a study on fossil carnivoran mammals from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains in northern India. Dr. Jasinski, of HU's Department of Environmental Science ...