Longer-lived mammals with fewer young are better able to cope with extreme weather, according to a new study. For the research, scientists tracked how populations of 157 different mammal species ...

Evolution takes some weird twists and turns to bring animals to their current forms. While evolution is based on random mutations and passing on traits that aid in survival, that does not mean that a ...

The Zoonomia Project is an international collaboration that seeks to discover the genomic basis of shared and specialized traits in mammals. The project, led by Uppsala University and the Broad ...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying ...

A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham for Current Biology has used new methods to analyse the ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...

Scientists discover that dinosaurs were not the main competition for mammals during the time of the dinosaurs, challenging previously held ideas about evolution. A new study led by researchers from ...