Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For extinct mammals, those bony clues now show that noses were not just prominent ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social behavior. A new international study shows that this vital sense leaves a ...

An analysis of fossil teeth from mammals that lived in China following the most recent major mass extinction suggests size came before both shape and function as diets diversified.

Ancient DNA from the dire wolf, a species that has been extinct for at least 10,000 years, now lives on in three pups whose genes were edited by Colossal Biosciences to restore the “once-eradicated ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies." The role of these "enemies" ...