Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The living mammal family tree is full of diverse species–big blue ...

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for ...

RYE — The Ocean Genome Legacy Center of Northeastern University and the Seacoast Science Center Marine Mammal Rescue team have announced a new partnership aimed at enhancing our understanding of the ...

A lack of female animal models in research has led to a clear failure to scientifically study sex differences. In 2017, Susanne Wolf, a neuroscientist from the Max Delbruck Center (MDC) in Germany, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Despite having the critical and even miraculous ingredients to ...

Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...

Seventy-six million years ago, a group of small mammals huddled in a burrow in what’s now Montana. They were good diggers—most likely furry—and petite. “They could sit comfortably in the palm of your ...

From reptile-like ancestors to humans, the new book The Rise and Reign of the Mammals tackles the diversity of mammals like us. The following is an excerpt from The Rise and Reign of Mammals: A New ...

Despite their underwater habitat, whales are mammals. Mammals are not solely terrestrial; some, including whales and dolphins, are fully aquatic the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology reports.

For some mammals, the evolutionary path to gigantism after the dinosaurs’ demise wasn’t always a straight road. Species of extinct, hefty, rhinoceros-like creatures called brontotheres evolved into ...