Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

Of all the mammals in the world, humans by far have the strangest diets. As omnivores, we have the most variety of any other ...

As Brazil’s Atlantic Forest shrinks, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species appear to be shifting toward humans.

Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

Nestled in the Linxia Basin, Hezheng County lies at the boundary of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. The region boasts a continuous sedimentary stratum formed no later than 30 million ...

A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

The research reveals why understanding marine mammals' social networks is critical for predicting and managing disease outbreaks in oceans already under siege with pressures from climate change, ...