New research explores the historical shifts in mammal traits and biodiversity loss in eastern Africa. The study reveals how environmental changes disrupted mammal communities and highlights the urgent ...

Mammal biodiversity in eastern Africa began to decline around 5 million years ago, and their extinctions coincided with environmental changes and the emergence of early humans, a study published in ...

Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...

As temperatures continue to drastically change each year, animals have been forced to adapt different behaviors that may ...

Evolution often involves losing traits like eyesight or flight when they are no longer advantageous, demonstrating a focus on efficiency and adaptation. Cavefish lose eyes through epigenetic changes, ...

Biologists have long drawn the animal family tree with a hazy base, unsure which creature first split from the common ancestor that gave rise to everything from jellyfish to humans. Now, a new genomic ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. You’re probably familiar with classic sauropod dinosaurs – the four-legged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A replica fossil of the titanosaur _Patagotitan_, one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered. It would have weighed about 70 ...

Large-bodied mammals play crucial roles in ecosystems. They create habitats, serve as prey, help plants thrive, and even influence how wildfires burn. But now, fewer than half of the large mammal ...

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 ...