She said this animal is a cousin to today's marsupials and probably looked like an opossum. "Most mammals were probably the ...

A team of paleontologists have discovered a fossil in northwestern Colorado that reveals a new kind of mammal that lived ...

In a recent study, paleontologists announced their discovery of an ancient mammal that lived around 70-75 million years ago ...

In addition to identifying the animal itself, look for the following signs to confirm their presence and that they are ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

VERNAL — A previously unknown muskrat-sized mammal species that once ... "This delta seems to have been packed with a wide variety of animals on land and in the water," he said.

A team of paleontologists working near Rangely, Colorado, has uncovered a new (or, more accurately, very old) state resident—a fossil mammal about the size of a muskrat that may have scurried ...

Resembling a muskrat, the animal about 70 million years ago skittered around this part of Colorado that was largely covered by an inland sea, like much of the West. “The region might have looked ...

It was a very rodent-like marsupial, just about the size of a muskrat, that weighed up to ... “There are a few animals emerging from the Late Cretaceous that are bigger than what we anticipated ...