Mammal evolution has been flipped on its head, according to new research that suggests marsupials are the more evolved mammals. By estimating how the common ancestor of mammals reproduced and ...

An endangered orangutan was born at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo last week. It is the first born of a 13-year-old orangutan named Suga, Ynet reported. Zoo personnel still do not know whether the baby is ...

Two landmark studies of a rare sperm whale birth observation in the Caribbean are reshaping scientists’ understanding of cooperation in the animal kingdom, revealing that whales in unrelated family ...

Some‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ Nectophrynoides frogs can reproduce without laying eggs, which has been documented in three new species described in a Vertebrate Zoology article. This finding has sparked a new round ...

A fossil in South Africa is evidence that therapsids, one of our ancestors, were laying eggs 252 million years ago. You can’t make a mammal-ette without laying some eggs. The duck-billed platypus wasn ...

You may or may not know that the armadillo is Texas' official small mammal. Did you know that, despite popular belief and depictions in the media, most armadillo species can't roll into a ball? Do you ...