Learn more about Morganucodon and Brasilodon, the two species that may have given life to the mammals we know today.

Research involving the University of Southampton has uncovered how mammals from the Jurassic age grew and developed. By using ...

The specimens in this new study date back to the Middle Jurassic–about 166 million years ago. At this time, mammaliaformes–early mammals and their closest extinct relatives–were really ...

Researchers recently analyzed a pair of fossilized skeletons belonging to a mouse-size mammal relative that lived among dinosaurs during the Jurassic period. Their findings, published Wednesday in ...

“We know so little about mammals from this time period, their fossils are exceptionally rare,” study co-author Elsa Panciroli said in the release. “This exciting discovery not only enriches our ...

The juvenile, which was found in 2016, is the only juvenile Jurassic mammal skeleton known to science while the adult, which was found in the 1970s, is one of the most intact mammal skeletons from ...

The prehistoric mammal-like creature was about the size of a modern mouse and fed on insects at the beginning of the Jurassic period 200 million years ago, according to Patrocínio and the news ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot.A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ...

What distinguishes the growth and development patterns of early mammals of the Jurassic period? This is the question jointly investigated by researchers of Queen Mary University of London and the Univ ...

Life Jurassic fossils show modern mammals grow faster than ancient ones. The 166-million-year-old fossils of an adult and a juvenile of the same extinct mammal species reveal that they had longer ...

Check out our stories here. The prehistoric mammal-like creature was about the size of a modern mouse and fed on insects at the beginning of the Jurassic period 200 million years ago, according to ...