Researchers have discovered two new species in a 125-million-year-old fossil in China. While they’d be wiped out by a T-Rex ...

In the final era of the Cretaceous, giant reptiles were not the only ones navigating a changing planet. Tiny fossils suggest that many small mammals embraced ground-based living long before the ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

This is one of several ways the nervous system regulates ion movement—and, in turn, neurological function—in mammals and birds. These receptors fall into two broad categories, acting like molecular on ...

2025 Shun Kobayashi CC-BY-ND Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, ...

"If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their surviving descendants: birds.” Bite marks found on the pelvis of a skeleton discovered in a ...

Rosie is a freelance writer living in London. She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting medical breakthroughs, but she particularly enjoys writing about wildlife ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

“How is it possible?” Researchers have long debated about the relationship between avian and mammalian intelligences. One possibility is that intelligence in vertebrates — animals with backbones, ...

The toxin responsible for the deaths of Californian marine mammals is domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by certain marine algae. Domoic acid is harmless to small fish and shellfish, but can be ...

When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a small and rare group of mammals that do things differently– they lay eggs!