According to Li Quanguo, Li Ruoshuang's advisor, these extinct early mammals had diverse lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling, and burrowing to gliding through treetops like modern flying ...

A toxic algal bloom leaving an increasing number of marine mammals stranded along Southern California beaches shows no signs of subsiding and “will only get worse,” officials said Monday.

Of course, I'm not talking about the college basketball postseason. It's time for March Mammal Madness, baby. The viral sensation — which has been around for more than a decade — tasks ...

Interestingly, these findings reveal that, although early mammals significantly differ biologically and ecologically, their color system remained mostly unchanged. That was until the ...

Credit: Roberto De Giorgio, Fabio Caputo Alcohol doesn’t just impact the liver, it wreaks havoc on the entire digestive system. From inflamed gums and acid reflux to chronic pancreatitis and deadly ...

“This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically, following the extinction of the dinosaurs,” said Stephen Chester, associate professor of ...

Allen Thomson on this subject in a late number of NATURE induces me again to draw attention to some objections I offered to the placental classification ... If this system fails to satisfy so ...

The length of your entire digestive system from the mouth to the anus is approximately 30 feet long. Your digestive system is responsible for breaking down the foods you eat so that you can absorb ...

What you’d be less likely to notice are your closest relatives. Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study ...

Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to ...

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 ...

The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the animals’ colours would have helped them blend into the night. Dark brown was in ...