While most of us know baby horses are adorable, the majority of people don’t realize the process involved in equine ...

One of the most debated hypotheses in evolutionary biology received new support today, thanks to a study by a scientist at the University of Nevada, Reno. Elissa Cameron, a mammal ecologist in the ...

Changing environmental conditions may threaten marine mammal populations by making it harder to find prey, and a new study shows how small, gradual reductions in prey could have profound implications ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

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FILE - In this July 25, 2011, file photo, a group of wild horses cools off in the ocean breeze on the beach in Corolla, N.C. As North Carolina braces for Hurricane Florence, some tourists and ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully created a bi-paternal mouse—a mouse with two biological fathers. This marks the first time a ...

A microbiologist named João Pedro de Magalhães has proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes. de Magalhães ...

Adult mammals have the capacity to kill other members of their own species, but males and females generally seem to kill for different reasons. Biologists have already studied mammalian infanticide, ...