The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

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

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

Mammal evolution to upright posture followed complex branching path rather than simple step-by-step progression.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another developmental quirk: they don’t use the same genetic toolkit as other mammals to ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

For over a century, scientists have been captivated by the mystery of how mammals evolved from sprawling creatures resembling ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

The integration of UAVs and AI is enabling faster, safer, and more scalable ecological surveillance. Multirotor drones offer ...