In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Along the California coastline, marine mammal ...

Over 4,000 animal shelters exist throughout the U.S. While many shelters have facilities to house and care for animals, they function independently from large rescue organizations. In many cases, ...

New research has dramatically expanded the known roster of mammals on Earth. A new review published in the Journal of ...

New York, NY—Conservation and animal protection groups sued several federal officials and departments today in the US Court of International Trade over their failure to implement the import provisions ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

Mammals, including humans, stand out with their distinctively upright posture, a key trait that fueled their spectacular evolutionary success. Yet, the earliest known ancestors of modern mammals more ...

But the researchers cautioned that the work could not shed much light on sexual orientation in humans. By Carl Zimmer In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose ...

The Trump administration is receiving an outpouring of support from animal advocacy groups, lawmakers and others for recent announcements to end animal testing within programs at the FDA and EPA.

There are approximately 1.9 million described animal species, and only 6,700 of them are mammals. That’s only about a third of one percent, yet the term animal is sometimes erroneously used as a ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...