The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Mammal evolution to upright posture followed complex branching path rather than simple step-by-step progression.

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

More than a third of large animals that feast on dead animals are struggling to survive, and a new report from scientists ...

Alix Morris’s new book, A Year with the Seals, explores humans’ complicated relationship with these controversial marine mammals.

Bats are mammals belonging to the order Chiroptera, a name of Greek origin meaning "hand-wing," which accurately describes the animal's most unusual anatomical feature. The order is divided into two ...

A closer look at lion evolution offers hope for saving the big cats. For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights ...

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