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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If biologists have learned anything over the past decade, it is how similar all mammals are at the genetic level. 95% of the genes found in mice are also found in humans, and we even share a ...

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 ...

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 ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Tennessee is home to a variety of mammals, some large and others small. However, not all of those fur-covered, warm-blooded animals are native to the Volunteer State. The ...

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 ...

If biologists have learned anything over the past decade, it is how similar all mammals are at the genetic level. 95% of the genes found in mice are also found in humans, and we even share a ...