Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

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

Contrary to popular belief, the rise of land mammals may not be solely linked to the disappearance of dinosaurs. A study ...

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that dinosaurs were already declining before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

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

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...

The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.

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

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

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