The challenge is that we only have one brain to work with. How do mammals solve this problem? About 2 million years ago (that ...

Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian era has emerged. The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ever ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia's most bizarre mammals. Known as "itjaritjari" to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and ...

Pantolambda bathmodon, a stocky, now-extinct mammal, lived 62 million years ago and reached roughly 92 lbs in adulthood, which was a much larger size than most mammals that came before. Video credit: ...

Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

In light of the ongoing global spread of the H5N1 avian influenza, U.S. public health experts are reassured that current ...