Dinosaurs so thoroughly dominated the ancient world that they suppressed the evolutionary possibilities open for mammals. This notion has been around for decades now, and it seems to be backed up by ...

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 ...

The Sept. 26 letter “Ruining earth will ruin humans” separates human beings from “mammals” for the wrong reason. Humans differ from other mammals because the latter live out their lives on the basis ...

Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature. This major difference with the cold-blooded reptiles underpins ...

A review of sustained mammal-to-mammal bird flu transmission in diverse species, led by The Pirbright Institute, shows global control strategies are not working. Writing in Nature, researchers ...

But the researchers cautioned that the work could not shed much light on sexual orientation in humans. By Carl Zimmer In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose ...

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology David Alvarez Ponce and his co-authors, Adam Roddy (Florida International University) and Scott Roy (San Francisco State University), recently ...

For over a century, scientists have been captivated by the mystery of how mammals evolved from sprawling creatures resembling lizards to the graceful, upright walkers we see today. This fundamental ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

A new study suggests that endothermy appeared in mammalian ancestors about 233 million years ago, well before the origin of mammals, which occurred about 200 million years ago. Endothermy, or ...