Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot. A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mammals, marsupials, and rodents are all animals that have different characteristics that make them distinguishable. However, it’s not quite as simple as that as rodents and marsupials are actually ...