A Proceedings of the Royal Society B study of 5,600 mammals found that two species will never return to dry land.
The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...
Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the ... one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are ...
But once on land, the animals found their limbs a survival advantage there, too. Evolution frequently produces adaptations that come to be useful in the future for a different purpose.
A recent study from July 2023 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B sheds light on how marine mammals, like ...
Penguins first evolved the ability to dive, like a puffin, and subsequently lost the ability to fly as they adapted to an aquatic ... easy to imagine them having all the same motivations as ...