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

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 ...

Cloning is growing as fast as we can effectively manage the growth,’’ said Blake Russell, the president of ViaGen and ViaGen ...

Of the 4,060 species of mammals that inhabit the world, fifty-three occur within the Adirondack Park. These mammals represent 7 orders and 17 families. Some species, like the opossum and striped skunk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...