Our world is the way it is because of the time when the synapsids struck back. Synapsids were the world’s first-ever terrestrial megafauna but the vast majority of these giants were doomed to ...

When it comes to the evolution of the mammal spine -- think of animals whose backbone allows them to gallop, hop, swim, run, or walk upright -- a key part of the tale is quite simple. Because ...

Prof. Emeritus James Allen “Jim” Hopson, a distinguished educator and paleontologist whose seminal work on the earliest forerunners to mammals shaped our understanding of mammalian evolutionary ...