Over the past 100,000 years, Australia and New Guinea's large animal communities have been disrupted by extinctions and ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1.

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

Australian goannas adapted remarkably well to harsh climates. Scientists looking for hidden bone structures in lizards may be ...

What is a placental mammal? Learn more about placental mammals and how having a placenta may have been an evolutionary ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Marine mammals articles from across Nature Portfolio Marine mammals are those whose life cycle is at least in part dependent on the ocean. They include cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins ...