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 ...

Humans appear to resemble mammals that live in monogamous partnerships and to some extent, those classified as cooperative breeders, where breeding individuals have to rely on the help of others to ...

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

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 ...

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

There was an interesting study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week that generated some discussion on Twitter and elsewhere (here's the press release that ...

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.

Mammals with pouches, like kangaroos and koalas, have a radical evolutionary history that suggests they are "more evolved" than previously thought, a new study finds. Marsupials used to be considered ...

(CNN) — The formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted. Using the first-ever supercomputer climate ...

In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo, chickens stand in their cages at a farm near Stuart, Iowa. Nearly 5 million chicken, turkeys and ducks have been slaughtered this year because of a persistent bird flu ...