A new study from Cambridge genetic researchers is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

Understanding how early mammals looked helps us understand how they lived and when all the present diversity evolved, says Matthew Shawkey, co-senior study author and an evolutionary biologist at ...

Given that these mammals are all thought to have been ... more similar than I would have predicted.” Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought The team plans to expand ...

New radioisotopic datings of volcanic fossil sites are helping researchers unravel the evolution of mammals. The University ...

And it’s also home to the oldest known remains of a gorgonopsian, an important ancestor of modern mammals — a fact that could change our understanding of their migration and evolutionary history.

Mammals live all across the world. They can be found living in the ground, in trees, and even in the sea. There are many different kinds of mammal, including us humans! Find out more about ...

All tetrapods descended from a common ancestor that just happened to have limbs with five digits. And over the eons of evolution following that, natural selection worked with variations on ...