Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

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 ...

That animal is the pangolin. And no, I didn’t say penguin! Pangolins are remarkable creatures, yet they hold an unfortunate title — the most trafficked mammal in the world. Pangolins are fascinating, ...

This is a wrapper around protocol buffers. Protocol buffers is a specification format for APIs, such as those inside Google. This library provides protocol buffer message classes and objects that ...

The amphibious nature of proto-frogs called temnospondyls provided a food-seeking ... "But when the ancestors of dinosaurs and of mammals began to diversify in the Middle Triassic, the temnospondyls ...