Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

The tools, crafted using Quina method – a technique used by Neanderthals – have been found an archaeological site in ...

Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct ...

Plesiosaurs were long-necked reptiles that lived in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs. While the area where this ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

William Murphy, Ph.D., from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named the 2025 SEC Professor of the Year.