Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

Three previously unknown species of rodent-like mammals that once scurried alongside dinosaurs in what is now northern Alaska ...

Scientists discovered three new mammal species that survived in Alaska’s ancient Arctic during the age of dinosaurs.

Seventy-three million years ago, in Alaska's dark and frozen landscape, a group of small, rodent-like creatures was quietly ...

Learn more about the newly identified species from the Arctic that were part of one of the longest living mammal groups on ...

After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched species profiles by Aaron Woodruff, collection manager for vertebrate ...

Recent discoveries have shown that brightly colored crests and eye-catching patterns adorned many dinosaurs. Meanwhile, our earliest mammalian ancestors survived these flamboyant predators by being as ...

Reconstruction of the appearance in life of a gorgonopsian in a floodplain of the Permian of Mallorca (Henry Sutherland Sharpe via Courthouse News) (CN) — Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands is well ...

(Reuters) - More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes. One of the denizens of this challenging ...

Over the past 125,000 years, the average size of mammals on the Earth has shrunk. And humans are to blame. That's the conclusion of a new study of the fossil record by paleo-biologist Felisa Smith of ...