More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Allen Thomson on this subject in a late number of NATURE induces me again to draw attention to some objections I offered to the placental classification ... from other mammals; but his names ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

Recent research conducted by the University of Bristol hypothesizes that mammals started to adapt to a more ground-oriented ...

A mammal is an animal that feeds its young milk. The ones that give birth to well-developed babies are called placental mammals. We are placental mammals and so are dogs, cows and whales.

The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.

The study, published today in the journal Palaeontology, provides fresh evidence that many mammals were already shifting toward a more ground-based lifestyle leading up to the asteroid’s impact. By ...

New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...