Geological records placed the age ... town of Banyalbufar, a unique fossil that could help refine the writing of the evolutionary history of mammals. In other words, our own lineage.

The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ever discovered unveil the secrets of a formidable predator, at the crossroads between reptiles and mammals ... The diversity of fossils found in the Balearic ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary ... shelled animal distantly related to brachiopods ...

The record from the oldest fossil collection ... Field Museum in a report stated that the fossil of the oldest ever mammal was found in Mallorca, Spain, and the gorgonopsians are said to have ...

and likely the oldest known member of a subgroup of synapsids called Therapsida (therapsids include mammals and a subset of non-mammalian synapsids that are relatively closely related to mammals).

Paleontologists believe this means that they could have evolved years earlier, pushing back the fossil record by millions of years. “Dinosaurs are well studied but we still don’t really know ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest known example of an evolutionary arms race in the fossil record, dating back ... of rapid diversification in early animal life. "Predator-prey interactions ...