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Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the discovery also shedding light on a remarkable survival story. The fossil, ...

Mass extinctions have radically influenced the history of life on Earth. Will we eventually succumb to such a catastrophe? Perhaps, but, in her new book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, io9 editor in ...

At a time when Earth was going through massive environmental changes and most species were wiped out by Siberian volcanic eruptions, some animals actually managed to survive the chaos. During this ...

Curious minds have asked the same question for centuries: Did mammals hatch from eggs? It might sound ludicrous given what we know about modern mammals. However, this was not the case for the ...

For more than 180 years, scientists have hypothesized that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs, but haven't found any fossils to prove it. Now, paleontologists finally have some tantalizing evidence to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of a Lystrosaurus embryo - Julien Benoit Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever ...

The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered because paleontologists suspected they were looking at something unusual, a ...