Using their monochrome coats as camouflage, these mammals blended into the shadows to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs at night ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early ...

Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

From the top of Shifting Sands dune in the Serengeti Plain of Africa a million mammals are in motion. Wildebeests. Zebras. Gazelles. The plain is black with them. It is wildebeest calving season ...

Modern Southern Appalachia was much warmer during the Pliocene epoch, which lured prehistoric mammal species east after crossing the Bering Land Bridge. Due to its Eurasian origins, the ...

However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals ... larger versions of their living relatives. The rise of mammals The earliest known mammals first appeared about 225 to 200 million ...