A dramatic new interpretation of thylacine anatomy has discovered that the extinct Tasmanian tiger killed prey more like a ...

John B. Calhoun's mice had unlimited food, no predators and space to spare. Their population still collapsed into castes and died out — here's what it proves.

California-based Lenz Pest Control’s field experience-including 96 rats trapped in three months-shows how pest professionals are successfully putting poison-free rodent-control methods into practice ...

The Tasmanian tiger hunted more like a fox than its fearsome namesake, according to a new UniSC biomechanics study of ...

These early mammals looked like shrews do today. They were small and had a long body, eyes typical for nocturnal mammals and ...

Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world’s large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent decades, all we knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the picture.

About 200 million years ago, furry, little egg-laying creatures evolved the ability to feed their offspring with a secretion from special glands: milk. Their evolutionary journey continued, and by ...

The Australian thorny devil lizard uses its spiky skin to channel streams of moisture directly into its mouth.

Larry Steckel remembers being a boy in the hot summer, battling with weeds growing in soybean fields. “I grew up on a farm ...

Our focus was on one of the most widely cited cases of evolutionary convergence – the dog-shaped skull of the thylacine, ...

Explore 25 astonishing biological anomalies that challenge scientific understanding. From prions to quantum biology, discover ...

H5N1 has been detected on a US mink farm for the first time, igniting fears the infected animals could present a human ...