Researchers settled on the name "Heleocola," or "swamp dweller," because it likely lived by rivers and swampy locations ...

These fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear ...

These fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear, ...

This makes fossils of early mammalian jaws essential clues to how this unique jaw set up arose over the course of evolution. “Mammals are defined by what mammals eat with–jaws and teeth ...

Scientists who identify, analyze, and classify fossils are called paleontologists ... The saber-toothed tiger was capable of opening its jaw over 90 degrees ©Daniel Eskridge/Shutterstock.com ...

The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 bones in all representing a whopping 40 percent of the skeleton ...

Brazilian Fossils Reveal Jaw-Dropping Discovery in Mammal Evolution Sep. 25, 2024 — The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists has led to a ...

A fossilized jaw bone has pushed the evolutionary timeline ... However, a new study of 225-million-year-old fossils found in present-day Brazil pushes back the dawn of mammalian evolution by ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...

"The jaw, the teeth, everything was so much bigger than most mammal fossils you see out of the Cretaceous rocks around there. I thought, 'That's huge,'" said John Foster, curator of collections at ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...