Marsupial and placental mammals diverged from a common ancestor more than 100 million years ago, and have evolved independently ever since. The two groups have different modes of reproduction, yet ...

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

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

Placental and marsupial mammals appeared during the Jurassic, sometime between 200 million and 160 million years ago. To succeed, as far as evolution is concerned, is to produce a lot of offspring ...

Some smaller species of rodent also hop. The researchers said they hoped to find fossils of ancient marsupials to better understand the evolution of modern-day kangaroos. Their findings were ...

The experts in marsupial evolution and ecology have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to ...

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

No other marsupial that moves on all fours is known ... dominant locomotor repertoire was a functional prerequisite in the evolution of bipedal hopping in macropodoids." Combined with further ...

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