Science news articles about 'mammal evolution'

The genome of the platypus—our most distant mammal relative—has been decoded, revealing traces of mammals' evolutionary break from reptiles hundreds of millions of years ago.

... , is actually the manifestation of developmental gene mutations in the deep times of Mesozoic mammal evolution. Maotherium asiaticus is a symmetrodont, meaning that it has teeth with symmetrically ...

... Y chromosomes in all mammals, including humans," Dr Grützner says All 28 published articles ... major impact in the field of monotreme research and mammal evolution," Dr Grützner says. "We have entered ...