Suggestions that haramiyids were related to multituberculates are substantiated with the first discovery of a haramiyid skeleton from the Jurassic period of China; recalibrating evolutionary ...

Learn all about mammals with these interactive learning resources for KS1 Science students aged 5-7 from BBC Bitesize.

How mammals got their stride New study reveals the twists and turns of mammal evolution from a sprawling to upright posture Date: October 25, 2024 ...

Two 160-million-year-old mammal fossils discovered in China show that the forerunners of mammals in the Jurassic Period evolved to glide and live in trees. With long limbs, long hand and foot ...

Imagine a world where furry mammals scuttle under the feet of gigantic dinosaurs, not yet destined to rule the Earth. It’s a mind-bending thought: the creatures we call mammals, including humans ...

The chances of aquatic mammals — like orcas, dolphins and whales — ever evolving to live on land again are almost nonexistent, a new study has found. Researchers discovered that the ...

Reptiles with these modifications -> birds and mammals. Girdles and limbs: Improvements to locomotion. In stem reptiles, the construction and proportions of limbs are essentially the same as that ...

The largest group is the placental mammals, which give birth to live, well-developed young and comprise around 95% of all living mammals, including humans. Marsupials also give birth to live young but ...

Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, underwater off Isla San Marcos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Michael Nolan / robertharding via Getty Images Whales don’t swim like fish do ...

Parker’s team isn’t yet clear what this extra copy of FGF4 does to stunt the growth of their bearers, but they have a very good idea. They suggest that with two copies of the gene, the dogs ...

Unlike most other mammals, modern whales do not have external hind limbs, have their forelimbs modified into flippers, have extra vertebrae in their trunk and back, have flukes on their tails for ...