On a small island off the southern coast of Australia, a spiky mammal emerged from the forest and walked through a clearing. Its brief appearance, captured by a nearby trail camera, turned out to be ...

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 ... from other mammals; but his names ...

If a puma, a Ginkgo tree, and a narwhal all step into a ring, who’s winning the fight? March Mammal Madness comes as close as one can to answering this question; though the annual event doesn’t ...

Kangaroos, wallabies, and other marsupials are known for their distinctive reproductive process. Unlike placental mammals, marsupials give birth to relatively undeveloped offspring that complete their ...

But for many animals, those labels are due for a revision. Most mammals’ daily activity cycles aren’t quite so cut and dry, according to a new study of global wildlife camera data. The rhythms ...

However, mammals are divided into three major groups—monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. Monotremes are egg-laying mammals, and marsupials are pouched mammals. Placentals are animals that ...

Polar bears spend a lot of time on land but are technically maritime mammals due to their reliance on the ocean ... have a high mortality rate for both the humans and the moose involved. The IUCN red ...

Several studies have indicated that ZIKV can damage the fetal brain directly; however, whether the ZIKV-induced maternal placental injury contributes to adverse fetal outcomes is sparsely defined.

We assessed the strength and direction of the intraspecific relationship between temperature and individual mass for 952 bird and mammal species. For eighty-seven percent of species, temperature ...