A collection of fossil teeth from southern China is shedding new light on one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

H5N1 has already killed seals and penguins across remote Antarctic islands, and a new study reveals the virus has now crossed ...

Tooth fossils hint that size came before specialised feeding in early Asian mammals. The story of how mammals rose to ...

Pangolins have armored bodies covered with overlapping scales that protect the mid-sized mammals that are native to parts of ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

Life in the wild often comes down to survival, and for many species, survival depends on others. A new global study suggests ...

Australia is home to unusual mammals not found anywhere else—consider the platypus, Tasmanian devil or red kangaroo. But did ...

New discoveries about Mesozoic mammals challenge the classical picture of small, insect-hunting, vulnerable animals that lived in the Age of Dinosaurs. Learn what early mammals were really like and ...

They are the most successful mammals that you probably haven’t heard of. Multituberculates were squirrel-like mammals that first evolved in the Jurassic, about 170 million years ago, and survived ...