Mammal species diversified more rapidly early in their history – peaking roughly 66 million years ago – before a long-term decline in diversification punctuated by diminishing bursts of evolutionary ...

Physical And Temporal Setting: 1. Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic / Timothy C. Partridge -- 2. Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities / Erik R. Seiffert -- 3.

LAWRENCE -- A $100,000 grant from the David B. Jones Foundation will help to develop a new generation of paleontologists at the University of Kansas, enabling students to pursue fieldwork in locations ...

Ignacio Morales-Castilla, Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga, Andy Purvis, Bradford A. Hawkins and Miguel Á. Rodríguez Abstract Ecology, evolution, and historical events all contribute to biogeographic patterns ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1218194 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1218194 Copy URL Various kinds of data concerning changes in total mammalian ordinal and familial ...

A groundbreaking new research project has analyzed the evolution of the placental mammal skull using 3D scans of 322 specimens housed in more than 20 international museum collections, and crafted a ...

Researchers announced a new species of mammal from the Age of Dinosaurs, representing the most complete mammal from the Cretaceous Period of continental Africa, and providing tantalizing insights into ...

After the dinosaurs disappeared, the world saw an explosion of birds and mammals. But a study suggests a burst of new snakes appeared, too, with diets to match the newly expanding array of animals.

Although they came into their own only after the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, mammals had maintained a low-profile existence for some 150 million years before that. New ...

A $100,000 grant from the David B. Jones Foundation will help to develop a new generation of paleontologists at the University of Kansas, enabling students to pursue fieldwork in locations such as ...