The researchers uncovered a 'mammalian-style' contact between the skull and the lower jaw in Riograndia guaibensis, a cynodont species that lived 17 million years before the previously oldest ...

Prior to Kligman's discovery, the only other unambiguous cynodont fossil from the Late Triassic of western North America was the 1990 discovery of a braincase of Adelobasileus cromptoni in Texas.

The rat-like creature — called a cynodont after its huge canine teeth — walked the earth with dinosaurs in the Triassic period. Now a study published in Scientific Reports has revealed that at ...

The ancient closest relatives of mammals – the cynodont therapsids - not only survived the greatest mass extinction of all time, 252 million years ago, but thrived in the aftermath, according to ...

Research by Agustín Martinelli and colleagues from Brazil has now revealed two new species of probainognathian cynodont from the Late Triassic, around 230 million years ago, of the Rio Grande do Sul ...

A recent study by Dr. Tomasz Szczygielski and his team of international researchers has finally shed light on this elusive specimen, identifying it as the oldest known non-mammaliaform cynodont ...

The researchers uncovered a ‘mammalian-style’ contact between the skull and the lower jaw in Riograndia guaibensis, a cynodont species that lived 17 million years before the previously oldest ...

In the aftermath, creatures known as the cynodont therapsids arose, the closest relatives of mammals. A number of features of their skeletal anatomy, such as in the braincase, lower jaw ...

The analysis of two newfound species of cynodont, a group that gave rise to all living mammals, sheds light on how mammals developed from these late Triassic creatures, the researchers said.

Prior to Kligman's discovery, the only other unambiguous cynodont fossil from the Late Triassic of western North America was the 1990 discovery of a braincase of Adelobasileus cromptoni in Texas.