Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard ...

This documentary explores the rise and disappearance of two extraordinary extinct elephants, Platybelodon and Deinotherium. It examines how each species developed unique tusk structures that shaped ...

(Reuters) - More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes. One of the denizens of this challenging ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

On the geological timescale, humans’ stay on the planet earth amounts to little more than the blink of an eye. Before we emerged, earlier creatures enjoyed golden ages for more than twice as long as ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Late in the afternoon on a hot March day in central Mexico, a paleontologist uncovered a jawbone and called over to Jack Tseng. Tseng, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of ...

Reconstruction of the appearance in life of a gorgonopsian in a floodplain of the Permian of Mallorca (Henry Sutherland Sharpe via Courthouse News) (CN) — Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands is well ...

Despite not being particularly mammal-looking, the earliest true mammals began to rise about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still roaming Earth. However, the therapsids still had important ...

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

Picture a baby Brachiosaurus the size of a golden retriever, hunting for food with its siblings while dodging predators that ...