A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants 30 million years ago has been identified following the ...

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of a "fearsome" leopard-sized predator that would have ruled the lush forests of Egypt some 30 million years ago. A largely complete fossil skull of the ...

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in California to have eluded human cameras, according to the California Academy of ...

“This research expands our understanding of the Eocene Epoch in the Geiseltal even though the excavations were completed long ago,” says Stache. Scientists now believe that Diatryma lived alongside ...

The virus is also adapting to new hosts — cows and other mammals — raising the risk that it could spark a human pandemic. “The risk has increased as we’ve gone on — especially in the ...

The research sheds new light on the mysterious origins of outer ears, which are unique to mammals. "When we started the project, the evolutionary origin of the outer ear was a complete black box ...

O. C. Marsh, of Yale College, announced the discovery of a new order of Mammalia, the Dinocerata, huge elephantine forms, with three pairs of horns and large canine teeth, from the Eocene deposits ...

Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a new predator. Can these promising conservation programs save them? A water vole (Arvicola ...