Warm-bloodedness is a key trait of mammals, but it was long a mystery when proto-mammals evolved this feature to stand out from their more reptilian, cold-blooded ancestors. Now, in a new study ...

Nature made a good many tries before it made mammals. Some of the experiments left no living descendants. But an accident of geology turned the continent of Australia into an evolutionary Deepfreeze ...

Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before vaguely humanoid primates, proto-mammals, or fish that crawled out of the ocean to become the first terrestrial animals, our earliest ancestors were microbes ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A newly discovered fossil reveals the evolutionary adaptations of a 165-million-year-old proto-mammal, providing evidence that traits such as hair and fur originated well before the rise of the first ...

One of the things that makes mammals, mammals is that we’re warm-blooded-- our bodies have high metabolisms that maintain our internal temperature independent of our surroundings, unlike cold-blooded ...

If you need an excuse to head to brunch this weekend, allow yourself to consider the possibility that your French toast may cause you to expand scientific discovery and research. Earlier this month, ...

In 2006 a team of paleontologists in Utah were examining the fossils of a large dinosaur when they discovered beneath its foot a tiny skull unlike anything they had seen in the area. Now, scientists ...