Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land ...

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A whale’s death offers a unique window and opportunity to study the animal up close and in this particular case, learn more about how this adult female gray whale may have be ...

As Eli Lilly begins to take the next generation of obesity drugs to regulators this year, a lower-profile collaboration ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a ...

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research suggests that young dinosaurs quickly struck out on their own, forming ...

Scientists announced on March 5, 2026, that they have identified an entirely new genus of mammal called Tous, a group of ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

In an unprecedented heat wave, we check in on the newts, the bears, the mussels, and all those flowers that just woke up for spring.

Men have nipples, mammary glands and the hormones required, but the ability for male lactation rarely turns on. Here’s why ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called ...