Myth debunked? Most male mammals aren’t larger than females
The findings highlight long-standing biases in how biologists classify mammals.
Tag: mammals
Humans, not climate, drove large mammal populations to decline 50,000 years ago
Study looks into the DNA of almost 140 species of large mammals
Mammals eating dinosaurs: flipping the script on the Cretaceous food chain
Bucking long-standing beliefs, a new fossil discovery disrupts our understanding of the prehistoric food chain.
Going out on a limb: regrowing human limbs is possible, although we can’t yet do it
Knowing it can be done and how to go about it is still a great step.
Warm-blooded mammalian creatures first appeared 233 million years ago, and the key is in their ears
Scientists inch closer to solving one of the greatest mysteries in paleontology.
What are fisher cats, the most misleadingly-named animals out there?
One of the world's lesser-known beasts, fisher cats are starting to make their presence felt in cities.
“Hobbit” creature shows life evolved quickly after dinosaur extinction
Tolkien would be proud.
Small but sneaky. These are the world’s 10 smallest mammals
They may be small, but they've got some amazing skills.
Social behavior in mammals is as old as dinosaurs, fossil shows
"These fossils are game changers," said the researchers.
Tiny 200-million-year-old teeth show the first mammals were actually more like reptiles
Although they had fur and whiskers, the earliest mammals had long lifespans like reptiles.
More mammal species face extinction by 2100 if further action isn’t taken soon
Mammal species are experiencing an accelerated decline.
New heart rate measurements suggest that blue whales are about as large as animals can get
Anything larger would need more blood than a heart can pump.
Small Somalian cavefish hints at mammals’ nocturnal ancestor
Things start to change when you've been living in the dark for millions of years.
Mammals’ evolutionary success relied on our ancestors growing very tiny
Sometimes it pays to be the smallest fish in the pond.
Fossils reveal that primates initially had nails and claws, we just lost the latter ones
Tighter social groups and a three-borne lifestyle likely prompted the switch.
After the dinosaurs went extinct, mammals crawled out of the dark to take over
The extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs left many empty niches for the mammals' taking.
Warm-bloodedness shown to be millions of years older than we thought — maybe as old as the dinosaurs
The case for dinosaur warm bloodedness keeps getting stronger.
New paper explains why predatory dinosaurs walked on two feet while mammals stayed on all fours
It's all about the tail.
Climate change has already harmed more than half of all mammals
It's even worse than we thought.
Newly discovered beaver-like mammal took over after the dinosaurs disappeared
An asteroid impact wiped out the dominant life forms on the planet, both on land and in the oceans, some ...
How humans turned “safari” to “safe” – what large mammals diversity worldwide would look without us
The fact that the greatest biodiversity of large mammals we know of today is recorded in Africa is a legacy ...
The Sixth Grand Extinction Will Be ‘Invisible’
Life on Earth has so far passed through five distinct crises that threatened to wipe it out, typically referred to ...
Diversity is what helped mammals survive through deep time
After the great dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago, mammals finally had their big shot as numerous niches became ...
Comet might have catastrophically collided with Earth 13,000 years ago
A recently published study suggests that the Earth might have been visited by a giant space rock 13,000 years ago, ...
24 million generations later, a mouse grows into an elephant
A mouse skull relative to an elephant's skull. (c) Alistair Evans Around 140 millions years ago, mammals didn't even outsize ...
The mole rat grows teeth similar to sharks
Humans, as well as most mammals, have only two sets of teeth to make with during their entire lifetime. However, ...
Fancy a cup of pigeon milk?
Common sense might tell you that only mammals are capable of lactating, it's a little know fact, however, that some ...
Humpack whales flawless natural navigation studied
A recently published study 8 years in the making reveals the uncanny ability humpback whales have of following seemingly perfect ...
Mammals, half way extinct??
The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...
