Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

A team led by Oxford University scientists recently captured the first photographic evidence of Attenborough’s long-beaked ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

Headlines announcing the arrival of a possible Russian spy dolphin soon circulated around the world as the beluga (dubbed ...

A newly discovered species of mammal has provided a snapshot of terrestrial North America that goes back 70–75 million years ago, a time slice that’s typically not well known. Thankfully ...

For the mammals team, our mission was to document ... tenrecs reach sexual maturity around a month after birth, it was strange to think these young babies could soon become parents of their ...

In this Jurassic period, the first mammals were gaining a foothold in the shadow of the dinosaurs. Tiny, primitive and sometimes quite strange, they were the precursors of the thousands of ...

A dolphin’s butchered corpse was discovered on a New Jersey beach last week, so, naturally, the internet is now exploding ...

Meet the creatures with the most crafty, strange and sophisticated eyes in the animal kingdom. These small primates have the largest eyes of any mammal, relative to their body size. Each eye is about ...

The shift from a sprawled stance, like that of lizards, to the upright posture of modern mammals, as in humans, dogs, and horses, marked a pivotal moment in evolution. It involved a major ...

The results, which revealed a new three-dimensional structure of the genome within the phylogenetic group of reptiles, birds and mammals, will contribute to the development of more effective ...