Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. The surprising story of mammal evolution begins ...

Scientists found an unexpected aging pattern in a mostly intact juvenile mammal skeleton from the paleontological period. By Jack Tamisiea Small mammals often live fast and die young. Rodents and ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ruling the planet. New work on how each group raised its young suggests the ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) strata of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The mouse ...

Radiocarbon dating on bones in the La Brea Tar Pits lead archaeologists to warn that history may be repeating itself. The end of the last Ice Age also marked the end for more than three dozen genera ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...

Joao Pedro de Magalhaes receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, Longevity Impetus Grants, LongeCity, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. All human beings age. It is part ...