Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Mammals, including humans, stand out with their distinctively upright posture, a key trait that fueled their spectacular evolutionary success. Yet, the earliest known ancestors of modern mammals more ...

The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...

A collection of fossil teeth from southern China is shedding new light on one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s ...

Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

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