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

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

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 helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...

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 ...

The changes beavers make can help land hold onto water and release it slowly, which eases flooding and stalls drought.

This prehistoric scorpion likely hunted insects, small reptiles, and even tiny mammals, while also being prey for larger creatures, including dinosaurs. The Jehol Biota was a diverse ecosystem ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...