There’s a place in Florida where time slows to the pace of gentle giants gliding through crystal-clear waters, where your ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

The early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs over 150 million years ago likely had dark, dusky brown fur, helping ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Bats are unique animals. As the only mammal capable of flight, they also have the particularity of sleeping upside down.

The flying squirrel is the most successful group of gliding mammals, with 52 species spread across the northern hemisphere. However, where these creatures came from is a contentious topic. While ...

Birds use different flying styles: gliding, soaring, hovering, and stooping (diving). When it comes to stooping—where birds dive at high speeds to catch prey—the peregrine falcon is the ...

As a mom of two young boys, I know that if anything can turn a marathon midnight feeding into a less daunting, (somewhat) luxurious experience, it’s the right glider rocker chair. As opposed to ...

A reconstruction of the Gorgonopsian in Spain, linking reptiles and mammals in evolution. Credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe / CC BY 4.0 Scientists in Spain have uncovered a 270-million-year-old fossil ...

A new study calculates the long-term effects of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s, which ultimately helped willow shrubs that feed wildlife in stream habitats.

A giant flying squirrel – about the size of today’s house cats – once soared through the skies over what is now Southern Appalachia, gliding above ... alongside other mammals about 5 million ...