A new study reveals how tiny rodent thumbnails shaped feeding, climbing, and survival, offering fresh insight into mammal ...

In a study published last week in the journal Science, researchers suggest the evolution of thumbnails might have helped some ...

Birdlike dinosaur "was not a picky eater," as evidenced by a rodent's foot found in its fossilized remains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Together, the evolution of thumbnails and claws might have helped rodents to eat different foods and enter new environments, from climbing trees to digging underground. This adaptability has allowed ...

This helps explain their sheer abundance. Rodents represent about 40% of mammal species that live on Earth. Previously, ...

Paleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach. It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating ...

An Interview with Dr. Lawrence Heaney Dr. Lawrence Heaney has been studying Philippine mammals since the 1980s. Over that ...

It's no secret that I love the rock hyrax, that furry potato-shaped mammal with tiny vampire fangs and the strangest "wawa" scream. I thought I knew a lot about them already, but today I hit upon a ...

A remarkably well-preserved fossil discovered in China suggests that millions of years ago, some mammals actively hunted dinosaurs that were several times their size. The 125-million-year-old bones, ...

Gophers are master miners, digging tunnels that can exceed 100 metres in length. To keep up with the energy demands of their burrowing lifestyle, one species of gopher promotes the growth of ...

"Yeutherium pressor" weighed between 30 and 40 grams (about one ounce) and lived in the Upper Cretaceous period, about 74 million years ago. It is the smallest mammal ever found in this region of ...