How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

The phylogeny of Allotheria, including Multituberculata and Haramiyida, remains unsolved
and has generated contentious views on the origin and earliest evolution of mammals. Here …

Jaw morphology is closely linked to both diet and biomechanical performance, and jaws are
one of the most common Mesozoic mammal fossil elements. Knowledge of the dietary and …

All Mesozoic mammaliaforms reported from China are briefly documented herein. These
forms can be divided into at least five major assemblages: Lufeng, Yanliao (Daohugou) …

Dinosaurs have attracted varying degrees of scientific and public interest since their initial
description in 1824. Interest has steadily increased, however, since the late 1960s when the …

The earliest eutherian mammals were small-bodied locomotor generalists with a forelimb
morphology that strongly resembles that of extant rats. Understanding the kinematics of the …

Mammals (or properly, mammaliaforms) originated in the Late Triassic and the first 50 Myr of
their evolution through Late Triassic and Early Jurassic are best documented by rich faunas …

Here we describe the bony anatomy of the inner ear and surrounding structures seen in
three plesiomorphic crown mammalian petrosal specimens. Our study sample includes the …

The Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions collected many partial and complete
dinosaur skeletons from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia between 1964 and 1971. Under …

The multituberculate Mangasbaatar udanii gen. et sp. n., represented by two specimens
from Udan Sayr locality in the Gobi desert (Mongolia), is a derived member of a speciose …