March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

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 ...

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mediterranean monk seal, one of the world’s rarest marine mammals, is making a slow but steady recovery along Cyprus’ shores, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. With an estimated ...

Mar. 18, 2025 — Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of these is one of the most widely distributed species in ...

Life cycles are as varied and diverse as life on Earth. Whether it's a mammal, like the arctic fox, or a bird, or a plant or an insect, different groups of organisms all have different kinds of ...

Scientists with the company Colossal have created genetically engineered "woolly mice" with thick, golden-brown hair and fat deposits similar to those of cold-adapted woolly mammoths.

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 ...