A research team led by Professor Li Sheng from the School of Life Sciences at Peking University published a study that ...

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

A new study found 332 types of complex sugar molecules in the seals' milk, some of which help protect young from harmful ...

Experts tracked the sea lion, which had a rope around its neck, for over a month before they were able to catch up to it in ...

Knowable Magazine reports that drones are revolutionizing whale research by safely collecting data and minimizing ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

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 ...

The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new ...

An international collaboration between scientists and researchers has lead to the discovery of Earth's earliest known mammal — the 225 million-year-old Brasilodon quadrangularis. Using fossil tooth ...

When a team of scientists reanalyzed a cat-sized dinosaur fossil discovered more than two decades ago, they realized the remains of the predator’s lunch had been hiding undetected in its stomach.

A new mammal has been identified on the French island of Corsica, looking like a cross between a cat and a fox. It is hoped that this "cat-fox"—which has been legendary amongst locals for ...