Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...
Recent research conducted by the University of Bristol hypothesizes that mammals started to adapt to a more ground-oriented ...
Elasmosaurus was a North American plesiosaur that lived 80 million years ... The Cretaceous extinction wiped out about 65% of all species. The Cretaceous extinction event wiped out many animals, ...
A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they all had greyish-brown fur. “They were dinosaur food,” says Matthew Shawkey at ...
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of ... dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction ...