The fossil represents the oldest-known mammal ancestor, challenging prior assumptions about their origins. Paleontologists reconstructed its movements and provided fresh insights into mammalian ...

The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ever discovered unveil the secrets of a formidable predator, at the crossroads between reptiles and mammals ... The Majorcan fossil, consisting of a skull ...

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

Deep within the limestone cliffs of Majorca, scientists have uncovered a 270-million-year-old fossil that challenges our ...

B. syrtos, which boasted razor-sharp teeth and a powerful jaw, belonged to an extinct group of meat-eating mammals called ...

The fossil has been named Jeholia longchengi after its discovery site in the Jehol Biota of Longcheng District in Liaoning ...

Scientists in Spain have uncovered a 270-million-year-old fossil of a Gorgonopsian, a predator linking reptiles and mammals.

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...

"Scorpion fossils are not as common as people might think," Huang noted. Before the discovery of Jeholia longchengi, only ...

Stem mammaliaforms (also known as 'stem mammals ... of the earliest mammals. The newly discovered arboreal specialization and fossorial and subterranean specialization of fossil docodonts ...

NEW YORK – An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their ...