Take a journey back in time to explore the early ancestors of today’s most familiar mammals. From tiny proto-elephants to ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...

The study includes eight fossil species from four continents, covering 300 million years of evolution. These species ranged from the tiny 1-ounce proto-mammal ‘Megazostrodon’ to the massive ...

Eomaia is among the rare mammal fossils to preserve fur. S. Fernandez et al. (2014) PLoS One 9(3): e91290 via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 2.5. Fossils preserving the body coverings of proto-mammals ...

The species included the sail-backed Dimetrodon, the small proto-mammal Megazostrodon, and the saber-toothed predator Lycaenops. Using computer simulations, the team created digital models of the ...

From the tiny proto-mammal Megazostrodon to the mammoth Ophiacodon, they used advanced digital biomechanical models to unravel the secrets of locomotion. Locomotion of species “By first studying these ...

Meet the animals of the Triassic with a lesson on how to distinguish reptiles from dinosaurs from proto-mammals. Problem is, several critters are somewhere in between. 2. Jurassic Giants.

To determine what tooth complexity reveals about diet, Melstrom relied on previous work on heterodonty in mammals, and his own earlier findings about teeth differences in reptiles. Recommended For You ...

Platypuses are the lowest of these proto-mammals. They have warm blood and fur insulation (important advances toward mammalhood), but they never quite got the hang of mammalian reproduction.

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 ...

1. Lystrosaurus. This curious, pig-sized proto-mammal was at one point destined to be a mere footnote in history. But then the Permian Extinction came and Lystrosaurus inherited the Earth.