A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity ...

A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Getty Image While Australia is home to some of the most impressive wildlife, it is also home to a sad fact. Being in complete ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to extinction since 2016. Those that have joined the International Union for the ...

Bats, rodents, hedgehogs, and shrews are mammals among the orders that are predicted to have the most undescribed mammals. (Pictured: a bicolored shrew) Werner Korschinsky via Wikimedia Commons under ...

No, birds are not mammals. Rather, they are avians. Mammals are characterized by their milk glands, hair, vertebrae and their birthing of live young (being viviparous), according to Britannica.

An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...