mammal

Documentarian Ken Burns has long chronicled chapters of American history, both writ large and in tiny, telling detail, connecting the dots from one scale to the other. This month, he…

Canadian and Chinese scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger…

In modern society, one parent may take a daughter to ballet class and fix dinner so the other parent can get to exercise class before picking up the son from soccer practice. To an observer,…

"Why do humans have disease if they went through millions of years of evolution?" It's a question Steven Gazal, PhD, assistant professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck…

Why is it that certain mammals have an exceptional sense of smell, some hibernate, and yet others, including humans, are predisposed to disease? A major international research project,…

To learn more about humans, a large international team of scientists spent years tracking down some of the strangest creatures on Earth. They camped out on an Arctic ice floe to collect DNA…

A study of moles reveals that cold weather -- not lack of food -- drives the rare phenomenon of reversible brain shrinkage in mammals. In the depths of winter, European moles face an…

With the help of an acoustic camera that visualizes sound pressure, researchers from the University of Vienna investigated the calls of Asian elephants. The elephants emitted their low…

Warm-bloodedness is a key mammal trait, but it's been a mystery when our ancestors evolved it. A new study in Nature points to an unlikely source for telling a fossil animal's body…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When an offshore wind farm pops up, there is a period of…