New study shows that big mammals suffer brain damage in captivity

Caging large mammals and putting them on display is undeniably cruel from a neural perspective, it says

Human activities impact wildlife, even in protected areas: Study

Jaguars, mountain gorillas and Sunda pangolins impacted by human population density and habitat fragmentation despite living in deep forest reserves

Poorer countries do more for the conservation of large mammals

Africa prioritises and makes more of an effort for large mammal conservation than any other region in the world

How much of the world did the muskox see?

Recent evidence suggests that the muskox, believed to have become extinct 10,000 years ago, may have actually survived till much later.

IN PHOTOS: Bird flu spreads to mammalian species

Seals, sea lions, foxes, otters, raccoons, grizzly bears, minks, porpoises have been infected, as scientists sound alarm about a new pandemic

Mystery solved: When mammals’ ancestors became warm-blooded

Endothermy developed in mammalian ancestors about 233 million years ago during the Late Triassic period

The secret sex life of the sea urchin

With the unravelling of how fertilisation occurs in sea urchins, scientists may now better understand the reproduction process in higher mammals, …

Approaching the end

Special efforts are needed or mammals with limited skills will not be able to survive the onslaught of development

Chimaera child

What is 'FD' the two X chromosome-bearing young boy - one of nature's accidental freaks, something akin to the mythical chimaera, or thefirst …

A 140-year-old Tassie tiger brain sample survived two world wars and made it to our lab. Here’s what we found

Overall, the thylacine brain resembles that of its carnivorous marsupial relatives (dasyurids, like dunnarts, quolls and Tasmanian devils) more …

Did our mammal ancestors live alongside dinosaurs? New research hopes to end long-running debate

Placental mammals co-existed with dinosaurs for several million years; they have soared since to become the most dominant animals on Earth

Elephant tales

A new book recounts the intimate experiences of prominent writers with elephants. Exclusive excerpts

Growing old in the wild

The conventional belief is that animals don't live into old age, but succumb much earlier to "unnatural" causes. Recent research, however, …

Much-maligned bats need more protection

Scientists insist bats are a muck-maligned bats mammal that in fact plays a crucial role in the propagation of several plant species

These giant ‘drop bears’ with opposable thumbs once scaled trees in Australia. But how did they grow so huge?

Scientists look into skeletons of huge tree-dwelling herbivorous marsupials, known as Nimbadon

Is climate change killing Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands?

During a climate crisis, the world’s largest tropical wetlands must be saved before it is too late

What elephants teach us about cancer prevention

Elephants naturally avoid cancer after 55 million years of evolution. Scientists are studying if they can extract lessons that could help people

Global warming: Africa, Asia most at risk of zoonotic spillovers

There can be 15,000 instances of viruses jumping from one species to another over the next 50 years

Mammals in wildlife trade host 75% of known zoonotic viruses

The researchers surveyed the association of 226 viruses responsible for zoonotic diseases with more than 800 mammal species 

Global warming in past caused mammals to shrink, and it could happen again

Will today's animals have enough time to adapt to human-induced climate change that's happening fast?

Hundreds of whales die in third largest mass stranding incident in New Zealand

Golden Bay is conducive to stranding because its shallow muddy waters confuse whales’ sonar, making it difficult for them to swim out once …

Survey of global species' distribution data shows gaps in emerging economies

As part of the survey, scientists investigated millions of records about the distribution of known species of mammals, birds and amphibians

Global warming causes extinction of species

Scientists warn a rise in temperature will reduce the habitable area in North America's mountains and cause a reduction in the number of mammal …

Of Van Riebeeck and the ‘Big Boss’: European colonisation decimated Cape Buffalo in South Africa, study finds

Several large mammals were hunted to extinction or near-extinction during the 3 centuries of colonial rule in the region

Gondwana ‘wellspring’ of mammalian evolution, not Laurasia: Research

Mammals evolved 50 million years earlier than thought in the southern supercontinent and migrated north from there