The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the ...

There are several distinct traits that make mammals different from other animals, with the most significant ones being that they’re warm-blooded, have either fur or hair, and usually give birth to ...

Mammal bones, especially skulls, are used for identification, and to work out the evolutionary history of each species. The ...

There have long been five acknowledged living species of bettong: the boodie, the woylie, the northern bettong, the rufous ...

“The number of distinct origins for myrmecophagy was certainly surprising, as was the discovery that their origins seem to ...

If textbooks ever made you believe mammals like humans, cats, and kangaroos first evolved somewhere up north, think again. A remarkable discovery from Australia has flipped our understanding of ...

New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

The cementum bands revealed that the adult Krusatodon was around 7 years old when it died — a ripe old age compared with living mammals of similar size.

Whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice volumes associated with climate change, according to a ...

Though species that lived in pairs such as Müller’s gibbons tended to live longer than loner species such as aardvarks, group-living species such as elephants generally lived the longest.

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region. That’s ...