The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Then, they searched previously published research for mentions of each species’ established activity pattern: nocturnal, ...

The order Cetacea includes marine mammals, such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Fossil evidence suggests that the cetaceans share a common ancestor with land-dwelling mammals that began living ...

Science has published two studies, led by an Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and ...

But marsupials remain much less common than other mammals. Opossums and other marsupials exist in North and South America, but Australia is the only continent where marsupials—and monotremes ...

New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor.

The pallium has traditionally been considered a comparable structure among mammals, birds ... they are not comparable neurons derived from a common ancestor." Using spatial transcriptomics ...