Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

Long before modern pigs rooted through forests and farmyards, their prehistoric relatives roamed ancient landscapes. And they ...

v.1. pt.1. A new whalebone whale from the Miocene Calvert formation -- v.1.pt.2. The Miocene Calvert sperm whale Orycterocetus -- v.2.pt.3. New species of extinct Miocene Sirenia -- v.2.pt.4. A new ...

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America.

Toward a continental Asian Neogene biostratigraphic and geochronological framework / Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius -- Neogene land mammal stages/ages of China : toward the ...

In the Siwaliks in situ evolution appears to occur in only a few lineages and is therefore thought to be unimportant in most groups. Immigration and extinction events tend to be correlated and ...