A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early ...

According to the researchers, their conclusions about the facial development of embryonic mice also appears to apply to us ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

An illustration of a Psittacosaurus dinosaur, discovered in this formation, depicts it nestled with its young in a den, hunted by a prehistoric mammal. These scenes offer a vivid glimpse into the ...

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study providing clues about how those mammals evolved as they faced giant predators.

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

When you open the cover of Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter ... Matternes is probably best known for his illustrations of fossil humans. In the mid-1960s, Time-Life Books ...