Mammals

The alpaca (Vicugna pacos) uses a reproductive technique never confirmed in any other mammal Zoonar GmbH / Alamy Alpacas are…

Whether by way of Attenborough, Disney or National Geographic, the iconic scene is familiar to many. The ground trembles and…

The living mammal family tree is full of diverse species–big blue whales, great apes, bats, rodents, and humans, to name…

Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting…

The idea that male mammals tend to be larger than females has been scientific dogma since Darwin. Bigger bodies, the…

The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers…

Researchers have shed light on the molecular mechanisms underlying hibernation, publishing their findings today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife.…

Some animals live in such remote and inaccessible regions of the globe that it is nearly impossible to study them…

Excerpt from the December 22, 1973 issue of Science News Spike the California sea lion, a member of the U.S.…

About 100,000 years ago, the first modern humans migrated out of Africa in large numbers. They were eminent at adapting…