"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 ...

Finally, birds and mammals belong to a richly branching part of the vertebrate phylogenetic tree, most of the branches ... given to outstanding novelties in evolution which have originated ...

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

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

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 ...

The tapir is an intriguing mammal whose evolutionary history stretches back around 50 million years, making it one of the most ancient lineages of hoofed mammals still in existence today.

To study mammal evolution and reproductive life history ... size of as many species as possible across the mammalian family tree and then use mathematical algorithms to look for patterns.

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.