The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

Mammals are defined by what mammals eat withjaws ... both in time and in the evolutionary tree, to answer when and how often ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

New kinds of forests appeared, offering novel habitats for what would become tree-dwelling mammals -- primates ... at scales both large and small, in evolutionary history.

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Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental ... Why is it important to study the mammalian family tree to decipher the origin of the brown adipose tissue?

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

They belong to the haramiyidans, an entirely extinct branch on the mammalian evolutionary tree, but which may have been to a forerunner to modern mammals. The fossils have an unusual mix of ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

"It's been a complete upheaval, says Mark Springer, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Riverside. "We've come up with a very different family tree for mammals." Many ...