A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

Marina Henke: With insects, wings diversify even more. That’s because when you're really tiny, the viscosity of the air ...

According to Northwest Exterminating experts in Georgia: “The active ingredient in mothballs is either naphthalene or ...

At first glance, a civet and a mongoose might look like cousins—or at the very least, long-lost relatives at a jungle family reunion. Both are small, sleek mammals with pointy faces, ringed ...

Voles are rodents that are closer in size and shape to hamsters than they are to the similarly sounding moles. These rodents are a common sight throughout North America, but some people ascribe a mole ...

Dolphins eat many types of food, including fish, squid, octopuses, turtles, shrimp and crabs. Larger species, such as orcas, hunt and kill marine mammals, like seals, sea lions and other dolphin ...

All our high-altitude mammals eat more to get layers of fat on the body before the coldest months. Many winter denizens, such as pikas, store food all summer long for the winter months.

Why do women not eat the afterbirth? Humans clearly lack any inclination to consume the raw placenta after birth. In this, we are alone among primates and highly unusual among mammals generally.

In Cambodia, the NGO Khmer Ocean Life has trained residents of coastal fishing communities about threats to marine mammals so they can participate in a citizen scientist network aimed at tracking ...

These move from hunting much like mammals on land, to extremely specialized techniques such as filter feeding. Here are five distinct marine hunting strategies, the sea mammals that use them, and, of ...

As long as they do what they do naturally, we coexist with them.” Fishers, small mammals resembling a cross between a bear and a cat, are another notable appearance on Allen’s farm. Once extirpated ...

Foxes aren’t above devouring carrion, either. These wily mammals have to eat between 1 and 2 pounds of food everyday [PDF] to maintain their body weight and keep up their energy up.