The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...

Contrary to popular belief, the rise of land mammals may not be solely linked to the disappearance of dinosaurs. A study reveals that their transition had begun much earlier, under the influence of ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed. More mammals were living on the ground several ...

A microbiologist named João Pedro de Magalhães has proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes. de Magalhães ...

NEW YORK — An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaurs for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons ...

If you want to get by in this world, you could do a lot worse than developing a predilection for ants. In fact, ant-eating may be a dramatically overlooked recipe for success. According to new ...

WASHINGTON -- They just needed some leg room: New research shows the great dinosaur die-off made way for mammals to explode in size -- some more massive than several elephants put together. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual find in China ...