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 ...

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

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

Only small theropod dinosaurs survived the extinction; the ancestors of modern-day birds. Our small mammal ancestors probably ... the closest things we have to prehistoric reptiles.

According to researchers, this area was inhabited by prehistoric species from ... since “the evolution of mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs is still very unknown and each discovery of a ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

(CNN) — With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it ... also found fossilized parts of the prehistoric creature’s backbone, tail ...