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.

An analysis of fossil teeth from mammals that lived in China following the most recent major mass extinction suggests size ...

Eutherian mammals living in China after the end-Cretaceous extinctions evolved larger tooth sizes first before becoming more specialized in their biting performance, mirroring a similar pattern in ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of Life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

couple of Brachiosaurus altithorax and a flock of Pterosaurs in a scenic Late Jurassic landscape© dottedhippo/iStock via Getty Images The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological ...

The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out. The post ...

It's been 66 million years since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and many may blame an asteroid's explosive collision with our planet for the end of the creatures' reign. But for years, scientists have ...