Yes, nature is often full of surprises! And although we have always learned that mammals are viviparous, that is to say that their eggs develop inside a maternal uterus, and that they give birth ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog ...

Pangolins, the world’s most trafficked mammals, frequently appear in wildlife seizures, yet there is no universal system for tracking or identifying individual animals. Researchers proposed what ...

Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster. Known as a Cathaigh — or Cata for short — the mysterious creature is rumored to lurk in ...

These ancient creatures are the direct predecessors of one remarkable group: the mammals. Mammals, relatively recent additions to the evolutionary timeline, trace their inception to nearly 200 million ...

They are part of the evolutionary lineage that eventually led to the first mammals about 50 million years later. Like modern mammals, gorgonopsians were warm-blooded, but unlike most mammals today, ...

The Vaquita, scientifically known as Phocoena sinus, stands as the world’s most endangered marine mammal. With less than 10 individuals estimated to remain in the wild, the situation is critical, and ...

Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

“That whale museum, I mean, it was spectacular. It had the skeletons of every kind of whale and sea mammal and sea lion … people come from all over the world to go there,” said Summer ...