Africa has a huge diversity of large mammals, but their evolutionary relationships and movement across the continent over time often remain a mystery. A new scientific study sheds light on ...

The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers suggest. The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was ...

Large mammals in Yellowstone adapt to summer heat by changing behavior—shaped more by landscape than biology, a new study ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown prehistoric mammal species that was among the largest of its time. The partial remains of the newly identified species were originally collected ...

A study of nine species of large mammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has revealed that their behavioral responses to ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

Although they came into their own only after the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, mammals had maintained a low-profile existence for some 150 million years before that. New ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 31, No. 7 (July 2025), pp. 1-13 (13 pages) Aim: Islands are regarded as ideal ecosystems for exploring biodiversity patterns. However, numerous islands have also ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...