BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

A study published in the the journal PLOS ONE announced the discovery of a new species of prehistoric mammal named Heleocola ...

A recent study by Harvard reveals that the evolutionary transition to an upright posture in mammals was complex and occurred ...

While turtle shell fragments were visible in the block, the new mammal discovery wasn't. It wasn't discovered until a Museums of Western Colorado volunteer noticed a peculiar set of fossils as he ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - A fossil of a new species was found by a team from the University of Colorado Boulder on the western slope. The mammal fossil was found near Rangely and is from the ...

A previously unknown muskrat-sized mammal species that once roamed this area when the Intermountain West looked more like a swampland millions of years ago has been discovered through a serendipitous ...

She added, “Colorado is a great place to find fossils, but mammals from this time period tend to be pretty rare. So it’s really neat to see this slice of time preserved in Colorado.” ...

So this new mammal was “positively huge” in comparison. The team was led by University of Colorado Boulder’s Jaelyn Eberle, the curator of fossil vertebrates at the CU Museum of Natural ...

The team unearthed a previously unknown mammal fossil near Rangely that is named Heleocola piceanus. "Heleocola" roughly translates to "swamp dweller." They were able to identify it from a piece ...