Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV news and reviews. The movie that inspired her to want a career in film is Lost in Translation. She won Best New Journalist in 2019 ...

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...

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 ...

Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that pattern, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes Female elephant seals are not ...

What distinguishes the growth and development patterns of early mammals of the Jurassic period? Paleontologists have been able to gauge the lifespan and growth rates of these ancient animals, and even ...

Mammals, including humans, stand out with their distinctively upright posture, a key trait that fueled their spectacular evolutionary success. Yet, the earliest known ancestors of modern mammals more ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other animals Riley Black - Science Correspondent By examining the fossils of ...

Warm-bloodedness is a key trait of mammals, but it was long a mystery when proto-mammals evolved this feature to stand out from their more reptilian, cold-blooded ancestors. Now, in a new study ...

From the 20-foot-long jawbones of the filter-feeding blue whale to the short, but bone-crushing, jaws of the hyena and the delicate chin bones of a human, the pair of lower jawbones characteristic of ...

What does it mean to be in a monogamous relationship? In Jez Butterworth’s Mammals, a silly yet strange dramedy starring James Corden and Sally Hawkins, it is the constraint, or at least the ...