AI analyzes 300,000 hours of mammal calls to improve wildlife monitoring

A study published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze over 300,000 hours of ...
Observer-Reporter

OP-ED: Mammals: Make America care again

The definition of a mammal is a warm-blooded vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for nourishing their young, and the birth of live ...
The New York Times

How Did Elephants and Walruses Get Their Tusks? It’s a Long Story.

A new study reveals how some mammals evolved nature’s most impressive chompers (which are not always used for chomping). By Asher Elbein Elephants have them. Pigs have them. Narwhals and water deer ...

Scientists pinpoint single gene responsible for initiating winter behavior of mammals

As the days continue to get shorter, scientists have made a significant discovery in understanding exactly what makes mammals ...
The New York Times

Same-Sex Behavior Evolved in Many Mammals to Reduce Conflict, Study Suggests

But the researchers cautioned that the work could not shed much light on sexual orientation in humans. By Carl Zimmer In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose ...
Science Daily

Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur

Scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago in China that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. The two ...