Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

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Of the roughly 6,000 species of living mammals, most of them are rodents (42%) or bats (24%), while common mammals such as cows, pigs, sheep, cats, raccoons, and monkeys consist of relatively few ...

More than 300 mammal species have gone extinct since shortly before the last ice age, a loss of more than 2.5 billion years of evolutionary history across all ancestral lines, a sweeping study ...

The reason it appears so unlike other mammals is because it is a member of the monotremes – an egg-laying group that separated from the rest of the mammal tree-of-life about 200 million years ...

But based on how mammals' traits changed over time, the research team concluded that the placental ancestor didn't exist until 200,000 to 400,000 years after the dinosaurs died out.

The find also helps put the mysterious Ernanodon into the mammal family tree. Archaeologists had suspected that the animal might be related to modern-day sloths and armadillos.

Mixodectes pungens (foreground), small mammals that inhabited western North America 62 million years ago, weighed about 3 pounds, dwelled in trees, and largely dined on leaves.

Rohanixalus is the 20th recognised genus of the Rhacophoridae family and comprises eight out of the 422 known Old World Tree Frog species in Asia and Africa.

The team also found dozens of undescribed species of insects, as well as newfound arachnids, amphibians and even a shrimp that dwells in trees. This rediscovered mammal, known as Attenborough’s ...