The skull of Hippopotamus amphibius of Cava Montanari. Cranium in dorsal (A), ventral (B), right lateral (C), left lateral (D) and posterior (E) views. Mandible…
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This image shows the warmest month average temperature (degrees Celsius) for Earth and the projected supercontinent (Pangea Ultima) in 250 million years, when it would…
Researchers have compared the genomes of woolly mammoths and modern-day elephants to identify the unique characteristics of woolly mammoths. In a study published in Current…
Artist’s reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Credit: Kristen Miller,…
Artist’s reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Credit: Kristen Miller,…
Location of identified multi-species ecological linkages and wilderness areas and ungulate migratory routes that intersect linkages between Yellowstone and Glacier park assemblages in the northern…
Gorilla. Taken by a wildlife camera. Credit: TEAM – Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network A network of wildlife cameras and 2.3 million photos show…
European moles shrink their brains by 11% before the winter and grow them again by 4% by the summer. Researchers find another brain-shrinking mammal. European…
The mammal ancestor had 19 autosomal chromosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. University of California, Davis scientists help reveal the genome of the common ancestor of…
An illustration depicts the lost animal diversity of central Colombia. Credit: Oscar Sanisidro/University of Alcalá The scale of the biodiversity crisis is shown by recreating…
During the dry season, evaporating water leaves behind trona crystals, which grow on the lakebed of Lake Magadi, the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift…
The African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana, survived the Quaternary extinction. Mammals with larger brains than similar-sized related species were more likely to have survived extinction during…
Elephant shew. Research suggests where these species may be “hidden.” At least hundreds of so-far unidentified species of mammals are hiding in plain sight around…
Diegoalerus with fossil. Credit: San Diego Natural History Museum Paleontologists describe sabre-toothed mammal new to science, offering view into evolution of meat-eaters. The fossil, housed…
Map showing Balkanatolia 40 million years ago and at the present day. Balkanatolia is a forgotten low-lying continent wedged between Europe, Africa, and Asia, already…
An American robin eats a winterberry. Small birds like robins typically disperse seeds over relatively short distances. Credit: Photo by Paul Vitucci Animal-dispersed plants’ ability…
The devil’s in the detail (the chemical details, that is). I know what you did last summer: chemical clues in the marsupial’s whiskers can reveal…
Mammal tree of life. Credit: Mario dos Reis Barros and Sandra Alvarez-Carretero A new study, published on December 22, 2021, in the journal Nature, has…
Carlo Maley is a researcher with the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at Arizona State University. Maley is also researcher with the Biodesign…
Common Origin: Venoms in Snakes and Salivary Protein in Mammals Evolved From the Same Ancestral Gene
Common Origin: Venoms in Snakes and Salivary Protein in Mammals Evolved From the Same Ancestral Gene
A new study has found that a class of toxins found in snake and mammalian venom evolved from the same ancestral gene. A new study…