The house mouse (Mus musculus) is one of the most common mammals worldwide. It can be found in all parts of the United States ...

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

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 ...

What you’d be less likely to notice are your closest relatives. Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study ...

The deer mouse, believed to be the most common mammal in North America, has a very different take on family values than its ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them ...

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought The team plans to expand its study by looking at additional early mammal fossils from elsewhere in the world, but Shawkey doesn ...

"And in those cases it's quite common to find dinosaurs with feathers, but also mammals with with hair." D'Alba hopes research will continue on the mammals to learn more about those colours ...

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

The team’s methods were not applied to more basal mammals such as multiberculates, which were common at the time, because their bones were different. Professor Janis said: “We've known for a ...