A study suggests that neuromuscular adaptations in mammals and birds may have allowed them to become more nimble than reptiles and amphibians. Since the 1900s, neuroscientists have known that the ...

In the race to adapt to a rapidly changing climate, warm-blooded animals might have the edge. New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have ...

As autumn descends and temperatures drop, North America’s amphibians and reptiles, also known as herpetofauna, scramble to ...

Yes and no: It depends on how you classify animals. There are two main classification systems – the Linnaean system which groups organisms by characteristics and the phylogenetics system, which ...

Unlike mammals, amphibians who rest up during the winter do not forget the memories they made beforehand -- this is the surprising discovery of new scientific research. Unlike mammals, amphibians who ...

We undertook faunal surveys and reviewed distributional records of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals occurring on Sapelo Island, McIntosh County, Georgia. Sapelo Island herpetological fauna consisted ...

A recent study uses data from the IUCN Red List of endangered species to map where threats to terrestrial mammals, birds, and amphibians occur at a global scale. The six major threats to biodiversity ...

Maps have long been used to show the animal kingdom’s range, regional mix, populations at risk and more. Now a new set of maps reveals the global distribution of genetic diversity. “Without genetic ...

There exist limbless reptiles, amphibians, fish and arthropods, but why are there no limbless mammals? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn ...

“The results support earlier findings, but the very large sample size in this study represents a substantial advance,” Len Gillman of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand who was not ...