Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” ––George Orwell, Animal Farm When I wrote in this column an essay on 4th February 2026 titled, the ‘Beginning of Another ‘White ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.