Kangaroos are iconic Australian animals who have long been used as a symbol within the country to represent moving forward.

When the researchers compared these three groups with data on the mammals’ known longevity, they found that group-living mammals tended to live longer than the solitary species — roughly 22 ...

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 ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

Whales are a part of the cetacean family, which is divided into two groups: baleen whales (which don't have teeth) and toothed whales.These animals are found in every ocean, but this doesn't mean ...

Even though the range of insect species far overshadows those of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, all of these groups contain impressive numbers. Mammals' 5,500 species might seem ...

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 ...

Teacher Notes. This video could be used to introduce a discussion about animal groups. Pupils could list the characteristics of mammals and identify animals as mammals based on these characteristics.

What makes mammals different from other animal groups? They are obviously the family that we are part of. So there's a lot of common ground and a lot of things that we recognise within them.

The evolutionary position of these animals has been heavily debated, but they have been linked to the australosphenidans, the group that includes today’s monotremes—mammals that lay eggs, such ...

Take a look inside 13,000 animals–no scalpel required. ... African spiny mouse joins a small but mighty group of bony plated mammals African spiny mouse joins a small but mighty group of bony ...