Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The living mammal family tree is full of diverse species–big blue ...

Humans are less monogamous than some mice but rank higher than one breed of sheep, says a new study.

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

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Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...

A lack of female animal models in research has led to a clear failure to scientifically study sex differences. In 2017, Susanne Wolf, a neuroscientist from the Max Delbruck Center (MDC) in Germany, ...

RYE — The Ocean Genome Legacy Center of Northeastern University and the Seacoast Science Center Marine Mammal Rescue team have announced a new partnership aimed at enhancing our understanding of the ...

Seventy-six million years ago, a group of small mammals huddled in a burrow in what’s now Montana. They were good diggers—most likely furry—and petite. “They could sit comfortably in the palm of your ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...

Researchers are fiercely debating whether claims about the origins of mammals result from a bias toward Northern Hemisphere fossil sites. By Anthony Ham In 1996, paleontologists made a startling ...

During the Cretaceous period 125 million years ago, a ravenous Repenomamus, an ancient mammal the size of an opossum, pounced on an unsuspecting Psittacosaurus—an herbivorous dinosaur more than three ...