Tag: mammal

This 'shrew-like' animal is surprisingly old.

To be honest it probably ran away from them, not with them.

The ancient mammal "bends and even breaks a lot of rules," said researchers.

One of the world's most unique mammals is heading for extinction.

The differences are too many to say all at once.

Although this mammalian forerunner still reproduced like a reptile, the fossils shed much light on our own evolution.

Talk about a groundbreaking discovery.

Eons ago, many millennia before written history, bizarre animals roamed the Earth.

In a way, we're all the descendants of these rats.

They may be the cutest animal in the country, but we're cooking the d'awww out of them.

Great Barrier Reef's only endemic mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys, is now officially extinct, scientists say.

Three different ways to breathe: Mammals, birds and insects breathe in different ways, as exemplified above. Humans, as mammals, inhale ...

It seems like us mammals were never meant to fly. Sure, bats can fly, but that's kind of it. Even ...

Although mammals surfaced only 20 million years after the first dinosaurs evolved, there's a general consensus that mammals were shadowed ...

A fossil of a small, forest-floor-dwelling animal called Megaconus puts a big question mark on the evolution of mammals - ...

An extremely challenging study published by a team of researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine claims that through some ...

For the past twenty years there's been a debate whether the mammal explosion that eventually made the class of animals ...

Well it may be a bit of overreaction, but with the Halloween and all, you just have to call it: ...

A recent discovery of an extinct mammal called Cronopia promises to help scientists trace the ascent and spread of mammals. ...

The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...