Mammals may seem like the friendliest and most familiar group in the animal kingdom, but some of them are hiding shocking ...

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

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

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 ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...

That's bad news for bighorn ... Dec. 3, 2024 — Brain tissue is among the most energetically costly in the body, and as a result, larger-brained mammals require more energy to support brain ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can ...

The number of bird flu cases reported in Europe and the US for the fourth-quarter of 2024 ramped up significantly ...

BERLIN — For the elephants and others at the Berlin Zoo, it’s finally time to unwrap their Christmas presents. Trees that ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an ...

Many conservationists believe barred owls are the biggest threat to spotted owls because they are more aggressive and outcompete spotted owls for many of the same resources.