A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

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

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

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

From drawing the gorillas being studied by Dian Fossey in Rwanda to artistically fleshing out prehistoric mammals from bone to muscle to life appearance, Matternes has captured everything from ...

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 ...

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 ...