Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

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The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.

Researchers examined small fossilized limb bone fragments from marsupial and placental mammals in Western North America.

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

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Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, grey-brown fur for camouflage.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...