Large terrestrial mammals are vulnerable to the acoustic sounds of drones, technological systems which are increasingly used to study the wildlife in open habitats such as the savanna and marshes.

Now, new research from Aarhus University reveals that those large mammals that survived, also experienced a dramatic decline. By studying the DNA of 139 living species of large mammals, the scientists ...

Diana Setterberg MSU News Service Oct 30, 2025 Oct 30, 2025 A study of nine species of large mammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has revealed that their behavioral responses to summer heat ...

Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major ...

Modern humans belong to a small minority of monogamous mammals and, in terms of partner fidelity, rank between the Eurasian beaver and the white-handed gibbon. That's the conclusion of evolutionary ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it's not generally recognized how unique features of Africa's ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from ...

Vera Weisbecker receives funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH; CE170100015) and Future Fellowship FT180100634. She is a ...

Q: Among the dogs I've had through the years, my small dogs lived longer than my large dogs. Is this generally true? If so, why?

Large terrestrial mammals are vulnerable to the acoustic sounds of drones, technological systems which are increasingly used to study the wildlife in open habitats such as the savanna and marshes, ...