A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Scientists have discovered, for the first time, how root cells respond to their complex soil environment, revealing that ...

Across the globe, terrestrial wildlife is undergoing stunning transformations, adapting to pollution, urbanization, and ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

WITH the passage of time, concern prevails over the degradation of the earth in the form of global warming before unlocking its full potential for human welfare. Global warming leading to climate ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct ...

Wild animals that have acquired adaptations to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (April 15, 2025) -- Wild animals that have acquired adaptions to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme conditions may provide answers to some of the ...

(April 15, 2025) -- Wild animals that have acquired adaptions ... First, they carry so much more oxygen in their bodies than terrestrial mammals do. Then, the seals manage it really carefully ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...