Scientists from the University of Adelaide have used some of the most sophisticated quantum cameras to capture life at its ...

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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 ...

CREDIT: Chester et al. 2025 “This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs,” study co-author ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

“This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs,” said Chester, a curatorial affiliate of vertebrate ...

The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Every March, college basketball fans print out brackets and try ...

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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 ...

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.