The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists has led to a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of mammals. These fossils, belonging to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Resultant force of the mammalian jaw elevating muscles acts on the horizontal jaw ramus closer to the craniomandibular joint than to the ...

An international team of paleontologists led by the American Museum of Natural History and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered new sets of fossils from the Jurassic period that provide ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...

145 Million Years Old Fossil Teeth of Early Mammals Shocks Archaeologists, 'A Jaw-Dropping Moment' Human ancestors had an adventurous trajectory on Earth, and their fossils help experts understand ...

Explore a few exciting discoveries by museum researchers that you may have missed over the past few months Erin Wunderlich A pair of humpback whales feed in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine ...

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A team of paleontologists working near Rangely, Colorado, has uncovered a new (or, more accurately, very old) state resident—a fossil mammal about the size of a muskrat that may have scurried through ...

RANGELY, Colo. — University of Colorado Boulder announced Wednesday that a team of paleontologists working in the northwest corner of Colorado have discovered a "swamp dweller" that was alive during ...

In the ancient rock formations of Greenland, the tiny tooth of a never-before-seen species was discovered. mahlersilvan via Unsplash Hundreds of millions of years ago, a lake lined with coarse ...

These fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear, ...