The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Every March, college basketball fans print out brackets and try ...

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early ...

New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Scientific Reports , 2025; 15 (1 ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

That animal is the pangolin. And no, I didn’t say penguin! Pangolins are remarkable creatures, yet they hold an unfortunate title — the most trafficked mammal in the world. Pangolins are fascinating, ...

It's still unclear whether the genetically modified mice can tolerate colder conditions than standard mice, but Colossal scientists say they will test this in the coming months. "We know that the ...

If a puma, a Ginkgo tree, and a narwhal all step into a ring, who’s winning the fight? March Mammal Madness comes as close as one can to answering this question; though the annual event doesn’t ...

Ellerman, J. R., and Morrison-Scott, T. C. S., Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals, 1758–1946 (Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, 1951).

The region's largest true eagle, females soar on a wingspan of more than 2 m. Verreaux's Eagles are somewhat unique in their breeding ecology, preying almost exclusively on Rock Hyrax, which are ...

and hyraxes. Al-Ashqar emphasized the significance of this discovery in providing new evidence for the evolution of predatory mammals in Africa. The findings challenge the long-held assumption ...