55-Million-Year-Old Predatory Mammal Footprint Found in Antarctica
A single fossilized footprint found in volcanic mud on a remote Antarctic island is the first known trackway…
A Simple Feeding Change Makes Zoo Lions Behave More Like They Do in the Wild
Lions in the wild live by unpredictable rhythms, alternating between intense feeding after a successful hunt and extended…
The Mammal That Hunts with Electricity Instead of Eyesight
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The Mammal That Hunts with Electricity Instead of Eyesight
The post The Mammal That Hunts with Electricity Instead of Eyesight appeared first on A-Z Animals. While we…
Secret to Sloths’ Slow Life May Lie in Ancient ‘Jumping Genes’
Along with armadillos and anteaters, sloths are members of Xenarthra, the only clade of placental mammals to have…
Omnivorous, Rodent-Like Mammal Lived in Dinosaurs’ Shadow on Pacific Coast
Paleontologists have descibed a new species of the multituberculate mammal genus Cimolodon based on a fossil found in…
Dragonflies and Humans Share Way of Seeing Red, New Research Shows
A newly-identified visual protein lets dragonflies detect deep red and near-infrared light using a mechanism strikingly similar to…
18,000-Year-Old Circular Dwellings Made of Mammoth Bones Unearthed in Ukraine
The Upper Paleolithic site of Mezhyrich, located in Cherkasy oblast, central Ukraine, is home to four remarkable mammoth…
Bird flu slams seals and sea lions in the Southern Hemisphere
For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy…
Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints
The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis…
Scientists Photograph Newly-Discovered Marsupial In Peruvian Cloud Forest
Credit: Pedro Peloso A team of researchers discovered and photographed a new species of marsupial while exploring the…
New Species of Extinct Octodontoid Rodent Discovered from Amazonian Fossil
Paleontologists have identified a new species of rodent in Acarechimys, an extinct genus with a widespread South American…