When most people think of venomous creatures, snakes, spiders, and insects spring to mind. Admittedly, those are the most ...

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine ...

Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, found himself thinking about cats. Not just any cats, but the loud, lovable, ...

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Across mammal species, from baboons and gorillas up to humans, females usually live longer than the males do. However, this ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made ...

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A global study reveals sexual selection influences life expectancy differences between sexes in mammals and birds, reshaping ...

Researchers who analyzed data from zoo animals found that it is not only genetics, but mating pressures that may determine ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to a new study ...

As well as having long-lasting consequences for Native Americans to this day, the bison population of North America was ...