New examinations of skeletons and animal embryos have allowed researchers to discover how mammals developed protruding, flexible noses. This study contributes to uncovering the origin of mammals’ ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — It may have weighed only 2 1/2 pounds and stood about 6 inches tall, but the discovery of a half mammal, half reptile's skull in eastern Utah has huge implications for geologic ...

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The backbone is the Swiss Army Knife of mammal locomotion. It can function in all sorts of ways that allows living mammals to have remarkable diversity in their movements. They can run, swim, climb ...

Papers from a conference held at the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and behavior and at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1981. Neurobehavioral significance of the ...

Scientists studied a mammal that lived 250 million years ago and found they had an eardrum that could detect and react to ...

A new study challenges the lateral-to-sagittal hypothesis by looking at the vertebrae of modern reptiles, mammals, and the extinct nonmammalian synapsids to determine how their vertebrae changed over ...

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

THIS little book, excellent in its way as a local vertebrate fauna, is somewhat more than its title implies. It gives, for instance, a very well-written and interesting account of the habits of many ...

We undertook faunal surveys and reviewed distributional records of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals occurring on Sapelo Island, McIntosh County, Georgia. Sapelo Island herpetological fauna consisted ...

The coiled channels deep within the ears of fossilized and modern animals reveals that mammals became warm-blooded 233 million years ago. By Kate Baggaley Published Jul 20, 2022 11:09 AM EDT Get the ...