Recent discoveries have shown that brightly colored crests and eye-catching patterns adorned many dinosaurs. Meanwhile, our earliest mammalian ancestors survived these flamboyant predators by being as ...

A mastodon bone will be on display at the Museum of Fulton County, nearly half a century after its original discovery.

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

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

1. The age of mammals -- 2. The origin and early evolution of mammals -- 3. Marsupials : pouched mammals -- 4. Placental mammals (Eutheria) -- 5. Xenarthra : sloths ...

A new season of Apple TV’s docuseries “Prehistoric Planet” follows mammals fighting to survive in shifting climate. The five-part season begins with “The Big Freeze,” one of the coldest periods of the ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research led by the University of Bristol has revealed. The study, ...