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 ...

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 ...

It’s a small, weathered tooth—nothing flashy at first glance. But the scientists who found it buried in Brazil’s Tremembé ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made the difference between survival and extinction. By analyzing fossil teeth ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A new look at a fossil mammal with powerful front legs for digging is clearing up questions about the origin of a group of strange and scaly modern-day creatures called pangolins. First excavated in ...

British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

Contrary to popular scientific theories, a new study finds that mammals were already thriving 10 to 20 million years before the extinction of dinosaurs. The research was published in the Proceedings ...