An artistic interpretation of Kimbetopsalis simmonsae, an ancient mammal that lived right after the age of the dinosaurs. A furry, beaverlike mammal that survived the apocalyptic dinosaur-killing ...

They are the most successful mammals that you probably haven’t heard of. Multituberculates were squirrel-like mammals that first evolved in the Jurassic, about 170 million years ago, and survived ...

Jurassic rat Remains of the oldest ancestor of the most evolutionarily successful and long-lived mammal lineage have just been unearthed in China, according to a new study. The mammal - one of several ...

Toothy mammals Mammals did not need the dinosaurs to die off in order to thrive, new research on fossil teeth suggests. Evolutionary biologist Dr Alistair Evans, of Monash University in Melbourne, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A fossil of a chipmunklike animal discovered in China is now helping reveal how this group of mammals reigned as long as the dinosaurs did, researchers say. A group of mammals known as the ...

New research shows that at least one group of small mammals, the multituberculates, actually flourished in the last 20 million years of dinosaurs’ reign and survived their extinction. Conventional ...

Even though they looked like rats, they outlasted the dinosaurs. A new species of mammal discovered in New Mexico is a representative of a unique group that is extinct today—but still holds an ...

On the geological timescale, humans’ stay on the planet earth amounts to little more than the blink of an eye. Before we emerged, earlier creatures enjoyed golden ages for more than twice as long as ...

When the dinosaurs ruled the earth, some mammals actually flourished - living alongside the lizards for 20 million years. And the secret of the creatures' survival was not huge fighting prowess - the ...

When the asteroid slammed into prehistoric Mexico and drew the curtain on the Cretaceous, dinosaurs did not fare very well. All but the toothless birds soon died. The aftermath of the impact wasn’t ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...