It's time for another edition of the viral March Mammal Madness, which pits 64 animals against each other in hypothetical "battles," bracket-style.

Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study published March 13 in the journal Science.

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot. A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ...

March Mammal Madness began in 2013 when Dr. Katie Hinde, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State, decided to mix the excitement of college basketball brackets with an educational twist.

Protected areas in tropical forests may not be enough on their own to safeguard local mammal species, especially when there are human settlements nearby, a new study finds. “Wherever human ...

Elephants, bats, rabbits and other mammals have exceptional hearing—and their outer ears may be a key reason why. Pexels Mammals have exceptional hearing. Using echolocation, bats can detect ...

An elusive California mammal has just been photographed alive for the first time Scientists rarely, if ever, succeed in trapping it alive ...

Many species of mammals, either extinct in the wild or teetering close to it, have been successfully restored to parts of their range: the scimitar-horned oryx in northern Africa, black-footed ...

How mammals got their stride New study reveals the twists and turns of mammal evolution from a sprawling to upright posture Date: October 25, 2024 Source: Harvard University, Department of ...

A new study provides evidence that a spillover of avian influenza from birds to dairy cattle across several U.S. states has now led to mammal-to-mammal transmission -- between cows and from cows ...

The researchers named the mammal Militocodon lydae in honor of two extraordinary contributors to the Corral Bluffs project.

Highlighting hundreds of cases of marine mammals admitted for emergency care, the Marine Mammal Center is calling on beachgoers to keep their distance, keep their dogs leashed and call the ...