Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources took aim Wednesday at the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), arguing both landmark statutes ...

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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 ...

If you want to avoid awkward silences at your next work function or you're looking for ways to elevate an upcoming dinner party, it's always handy to have a few fun facts and trivia tidbits up ...

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, narrowed the topics covered by its opinion section Wednesday to defending personal liberties and the free market, a pivot away from its ...

A random glucose test measures the amount of glucose or sugar circulating in a person’s blood at any time of day. Typical ranges for a glucose tolerance test are 140 milligrams per deciliter or ...

A reconstruction of the Gorgonopsian in Spain, linking reptiles and mammals in evolution. Credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe / CC BY 4.0 Scientists in Spain have uncovered a 270-million-year-old fossil ...

A new study calculates the long-term effects of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s, which ultimately helped willow shrubs that feed wildlife in stream habitats.

But why specifically 21 centimeters? That's where things get juicy. This 21 cm radiation isn't just some random frequency we picked out of a hat. It's tied to something very essential, known as ...

This one-meter-long predator, lacking fur and external ears, defies conventional classification—it’s neither fully reptile nor fully mammal. The fossil from Majorca reveals an intriguing mix of ...

The world was amazed on February 22, 1997, when it came to know about Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult body cell. The discovery defied the scientific dogma of its time making it a ...

The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise to a new era of ethical debate and experimentation Sarah Holzmann Dolly ...