Early Mammals News
May 14, 2024
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Apr. 5, 2024 A new study calls into question Bergmann's rule, an 1800s-era scientific principle stating that animals in high-latitude, cooler climates tend to be larger than close relatives living in warmer ...
Apr. 3, 2024 The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of the other animals living alongside them, according to a new ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The team of researchers ...
Feb. 29, 2024 A 30 million year-old fossil whale may not be the heaviest animal of all time after all, according to a new analysis by paleontologists. The new analysis puts Perucetus colossus back in the same weight range as modern whales and smaller than the ...
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Feb. 22, 2024 The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers ...
Feb. 20, 2024 In a new study, paleontologists describe the oldest-known leaf-nosed bat fossils, which were found along the banks of the Panama Canal. They're also ...
Feb. 12, 2024 The bead found at the La Prele Mammoth site in Wyoming's Converse County is about 12,940 years old and made of bone from a ...
Jan. 29, 2024 A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal locomotion courtesy of a novel method: ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the iconic species and some ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Fossils of kelp along the Pacific Coast are rare. Until now, the oldest fossil dated from 14 million years ago, leading to the view that today's denizens of the kelp forest -- marine mammals, ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have identified a 3D fragment of fossilized skin that is at least 21 million years than previously described skin fossils. The skin, ...
Dec. 12, 2023 Horses have developed long faces simply 'because they can,' a team of evolutionary biologists say. In a major review of how mammalian heads evolve, ...
Dec. 14, 2023 A new study of the remains of prehistoric and modern African antelopes found that AI technology accurately identified animals more than 90% of the ...
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Nov. 22, 2023 Modern hippos first dispersed in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene, according to a new ...
Nov. 16, 2023 Ancient cycad lineages that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs may have done so by relying on symbiotic bacteria in their roots to fix atmospheric nitrogen. The finding came from an effort to ...
Oct. 19, 2023 Bats may have lived in caves and used soundwaves to navigate much earlier than first ...
Oct. 12, 2023 A 13-million-year-old saber-toothed marsupial skeleton discovered during paleontological explorations in Colombia is the most complete specimen recovered in the ...
Oct. 10, 2023 The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers have ...
Oct. 5, 2023 For decades, scientists have assumed that mammals and their relatives that survived challenging times (like those during mass extinctions) made it because they were generalists that were able to eat ...
Sep. 25, 2023 A new study shows unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction, akin to when the dinosaurs died out, eliminating nearly all mammals in some 250 million years ...
Sep. 19, 2023 A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the ...
Aug. 31, 2023 An international team of marine scientists has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate their mutation rates. Using the newly determined rates, the group found ...
Aug. 18, 2023 Radiocarbon dating on bones in the La Brea Tar Pits lead archaeologists to warn that history may be repeating ...
July 18, 2023 Scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago in China that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. The two ...
July 12, 2023 Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence of bone disease in their joints, according to new ...
July 11, 2023 A new study reveals the iconic extinct Megalodon, or 'megatooth shark', was a rather slow cruiser that used its warm-bloodedness to facilitate digestion and absorption of ...
July 10, 2023 Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right ...
June 27, 2023 A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs for a ...
June 27, 2023 The lower jaws of lizards, birds, fish and even dinosaurs are comprised of multiple bones per side. Yet mammals diverged from all other vertebrates and settled on just one bone, repurposing the extra ...
June 26, 2023 How the megalodon, a shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, stayed warm was a matter of speculation among scientists. Using an analysis of tooth fossils from the megalodon and other sharks of ...
June 8, 2023 A groundbreaking new paper focuses on the size and abundance of living and fossil African large mammals, shedding light on the ecological dynamics behind the decline of these iconic creatures. The ...
May 22, 2023 Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person's visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of ...
May 22, 2023 A tiger-sized saber-toothed creature called Inostrancevia has previously only been found in Russia. But scientists have discovered its fossils in South Africa, suggesting that it migrated 7,000 miles ...
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- Humans' Ancestors Survived the Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs
- A Jaw-Dropping Conundrum: Why Do Mammals Have a Stiff Lower Jaw?
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- Dinosaurs Were the First to Take the Perspectives of Others
- Fossils of a Saber-Toothed Top Predator Reveal a Scramble for Dominance Leading Up to 'the Great Dying'
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- Information 'deleted' From the Human Genome May Be What Made Us Human
- Mammalian Evolution Provides Hints for Understanding the Origins of Human Disease
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- Increasing Forest Cover in the Eifel Region 11,000 Years Ago Resulted in the Local Loss of Megafauna
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- Microscopic Fossils Record Ancient Climate Conditions
- Dental Crowding: Ancient Baleen Whales Had a Mouth Full