Mammal bones, especially skulls, are used for identification, and to work out the evolutionary history of each species. The ...

“The number of distinct origins for myrmecophagy was certainly surprising, as was the discovery that their origins seem to ...

Mammals only have one life to live, but the length of that life varies greatly. While some shrews shuffle off this mortal coil in less than 14 months, bowhead whales can swim in Arctic waters for ...

Among living mammals, examples of hypercarnivores, as they’re also called, include polar bears, dolphins, lions, tigers, and even small cats.

Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that pattern, a new study suggests.

Researchers say that the facial bones of egg-laying mammals, like the Australian platypus and echidna, provide additional living examples of transitional bone structures from the evolutionarily ...

An international collaboration between scientists and researchers has lead to the discovery of Earth's earliest known mammal — the 225 million-year-old Brasilodon quadrangularis. Using fossil ...