Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

I f you weighed all the world’s mammals, how much of that figure—known as biomass—would include wild animals? As of 2020, they contributed roughly 5 percent of the biomass o ...

Human movement today is about 40 times greater than the combined movement of all wild animals - including land mammals, birds, and arthropods.

Native to the arctic waters of the northern hemisphere, the Bowhead whale can live for centuries, and now scientists think ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

Nature has become a rounding error on a planet dominated by humanity, and for some things we don’t even need our machines to do it.

Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its ...

Humans' biomass movement is 40 times greater than all land animals combined, reshaping ecosystems through extensive mobility.