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

The fascinating world of miniature mammals Mammals, characterized by their ability to nurse their young and regulate body ...

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 ...

As a prehistoric species, their ancestors first evolved more ... As apex predators, adult alligators eat a diet of fish, ...

The arthropod, Arthropleura, lived in forests near the equator between 346 million and 290 million years ago, during the late ...

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

Birds and mammals left a great number of prints, but, spectacularly, so did a pair of hominids, one large and one small ... preserving a moment in prehistoric time.

Orcas, like all whales, are mammals ... walked on four legs — small deer-like creatures, about the size of a house cat, that ate plants and waded around in prehistoric lagoons over 50 ...

Scientists have just resolved the mystery of the extinction of dwarf elephants and dwarf hippos on Cyprus 14,000 years ago.

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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.