Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

Plastic found inside a dead black-footed albatross. Image by Dan Clark /USFWS. New research has found that even small amounts ...

Human movement today is about 40 times greater than the combined movement of all wild animals - including land mammals, birds, and arthropods.

In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades of data from UK harbor ...

There are approximately 1.9 million described animal species, and only 6,700 of them are mammals. That’s only about a third ...

Despite their underwater habitat, whales are mammals. Mammals are not solely terrestrial; some, including whales and dolphins, are fully aquatic the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology reports.

As the days continue to get shorter, scientists have made a significant discovery in understanding exactly what makes mammals ...

The plan: use a Bluetooth speaker to play the recording across the bay, hoping the mother would recognize the sound and come ...

For over a century, the scientific understanding of matrotrophy of an embryo developing inside a mom's body has come from vertebrates. This process was thought to be infrequent among the other 33 or ...

Three decades of data from UK harbour porpoises show mercury is still increasing despite a global treaty to reduce it.