A new analysis of this 400,000-year-old skull fills in missing branches on the elephant evolutionary tree.

The book also introduces readers to prehistoric mustelids, a family of carnivores that includes weasels, badgers and wolverines. These ancient mammals were far larger than their modern relatives.

It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan melvillei, a large predatory whale from the Miocene epoch. After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals.

After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched ...

Fossil evidence has led to the identification of a new prehistoric mammal with similarities to ... particularly within the ...

The teeth of horses and zebras look alike. The ear bones of mammals were once the jaws of prehistoric reptiles. And so on. Despite these differences, all mammals share four traits that are shown ...

As a prehistoric species, their ancestors first evolved more than 245 million years ... As apex predators, adult alligators ...

Uncover the secrets of dinosaur origins with the discovery of Gondwanax paraisensis, a 237-million-year-old reptile fossil in southern Brazil.

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India's Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly ...

In a grove of acacia trees a group of giraffes, members of a family of mammals that until 20 million years ago were small forest dwellers, nibble at the top branches. A few miles away elephants ...

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, ...