JCU researcher Linda Reinhold led the study, which is published in PLOS One. She said photoluminescence in mammal fur is common. "Rats, along with bandicoots, possums, bats, tree-kangaroos and ...

Why do cats generally live longer than dogs? New research suggests that longer lifespans of mammals like cats could be linked to their bigger brains and more complex immune systems. Why do cats ...

Thanks to a combination of advanced, high-resolution mass spectrometry and genetic engineering, Spinelli and colleagues have identified rhodoquinone as an important electron transporter in mammals.

The study, published in IOP Publishing's Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, was inspired by mammals' ability to move through water as well as on land. Existing amphibious robots are largely inspired by ...

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the chances of this are actually vanishingly small, as the adaptations that allow ...

Long Island wildlife experts have employed the help of citizen scientists in their three-year survey of the island’s terrestrial and semi-aquatic mammals. They say there are 27 of them — some ...

Electrical synapses that carry messages through the brain have been artificially engineered in mammals for the first time, altering their behaviour. This could have potential for preventing or ...

It’s a common misconception that mammals are direct descendants of dinosaurs. In reality, these two great groups are distant cousins, not parent and child. Dinosaurs belong to the reptilian ...

The bodies of sea mammals are washing up on Los Angeles County beaches at such an alarming rate that caretaker groups say that a toxic wave of algae causing this horrific phenomenon is resulting ...

People look at sloths and always underestimate them. But sloths push what it means to be a mammal to the absolute extreme. There's so much we can learn from sloths. And there's so much more we ...