A gorgeous new fossil of an early mammal relative is giving scientists an astonishing insight into how our own ancient ...
It's another sign that some raptors are back from the brink, after their populations were decimated in the 20th century ...
A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a key gene ...
Scientists at the University of Chicago have revealed a Jurassic-era otter ancestor that appears to be the earliest animal ...
A brief reviewWritten by David Baker, who earned a master's degree in history at the University of Calgary and the world's ...
“Carnivory is primarily an adaptation for plants to get nutrients in low nutrient environments,” says Coogan. Carnivorous ...
When you think of chameleons, you think of their slow movements and color-changing bodies. But the most incredible thing ...
More than 4,000 species have been introduced at last count. Of these, 3,000 are sufficiently out of control to be considered ...
The author of a new book on New Zealand's birds believes there are few countries as connected with its bird life as this one. Robert Vennell is a curator in the Natural Science department at Auckland ...
Fossil teeth reveal that T. rex maintained a body temperature similar to humans, offering new clues about dinosaur metabolism ...
University of Missouri researchers found that bullfrog brains can produce ketone bodies locally when glucose is scarce, a ...
An integrated study of estrogen receptor alpha evolution across 169 mammalian species reveals how ecological traits and ...