Almost all marine mammals are carnivores: Think orcas, whales, dolphins, and even walruses and otters. Even baleen whales eat ...

A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be ...

Why did our ancestors ditch the shell and start growing babies inside their bodies instead? In this episode of Big Ideas, ...

The animals we see today didn’t always look the way they do now. In this video we examine the early evolutionary relatives of modern mammals. From unusual body shapes to unexpected features, these ...

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

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 ...

If you spend much time watching online videos depicting releases of rescued wildlife, you’ll find that most people are ...

Animal communication is more than simple signals. Mammals use sounds, expressions, and touch to convey emotions and social ...

Avian influenza has reached the U.S. west coast’s marine mammal population. Young northern elephant seals located at Año Nuevo State Park have tested positive for H5N1, a deadly virus also known as ...

They already have the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes.

Western Massachusetts saw its first spring-like day on Tuesday when temperatures reached 79 degrees in Chicopee, but it is ...

The first seven cases of avian influenza were confirmed by preliminary testing at UC Davis and confirmatory testing by the ...