Mammals

Explained: Can the extinct dodo bird be brought ‘back to life’?

Genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences is attempting to bring back the bird as a part of its ‘de-extinction efforts’. It plans to develop tools to examine the bird’s DNA for crucial features they believe they may later effectively rebuild within the body of a living relative

More bad news for flora, loss of animal biodiversity spells doom for some plants

Animal-dispersed plants’ abilities to adapt to climate change reduced by 60 percent due to a loss of biodiversity

Tiny elephant shrew reappears in two countries after five decades of being thought lost

Though the Somali elephant shrew was thought to be a lost species, locals of East Africa identified the animal easily in pictures.

World Environment Day 2020: Bats are not the enemy in the fight against the novel Coronavirus

Oversimplification of scientific facts and misinterpretations have triggered a backlash against bats, prompting biologists to clear the air on bat-borne viruses.

Coronavirus outbreak might have originated in infected bats – here’s why scientists think so

Bats may have an immune system that lets them coexist with many disease-causing viruses, experts think.

Wildlife discovered in 2019: From leaf like lizards, venomous vipers to human sized leaves

Discoveries of new species is the outcome of perseverance, years of fieldwork & long periods of looking at museum records.

Some animals pause their own pregnancies, but how they do it is still a mystery

More than 130 species of mammal can pause their pregnancies and it can last anywhere between a couple of days and 11 months.

Treasure trove of fossil reveal post-apocalyptic landscape after an asteroid hit Earth

Mammals had lived in the large shadow of the dinosaurs, never getting bigger than a small dog until the mass extinction.

Scientists identify new dinosaur species as the largest flying mammal to live

Despite their large size and wide distribution, only fragmentary remains have been unearthed.

Mysterious killer whales seen off the coast of Chile could be a new species

Samples collected from the whales will decide if its different pattern & shape are new to science.