Why elephants are `huge` and rats `tiny`

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 14:00

Scientists have tried to explain why certain mammal families evolved to be very large, while others remained tiny through the course of time.

Furry insect-eater was the ancestor of all placental mammals

Last Updated: Friday, February 8, 2013, 12:53

Scientists have been able to predict the appearance of the most recent common ancestor of all placental mammals - a small furry long-tailed insect-eating creature.

Arctic mammals to survive new climatic changes

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 17:21

The climate changes depicted by climatologists up to the year 2080 will benefit most mammals that live in northern Europe’s Arctic and sub-Arctic land.

Human hands evolved to become `fists of fury`

Last Updated: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 14:37

Human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists and fight, researchers say.

Calorie-rich diet key to survival of whales and dolphins

Last Updated: Friday, November 23, 2012, 19:11

Survival of whales and dolphins depends on the right kind of high-energy diet and not just any prey will do, scientists say.

Nearly 9 pc of hemisphere`s mammals unlikely to escape climate change

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 19:08

New study has revealed that a safe haven could be out of reach for nearly one-tenth of the Western Hemisphere`s mammals, won`t move swiftly enough to outpace climate change.

Meat eating had profound human evolution?

Last Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 19:12

Meat eating helped early humans to spread more quickly across the world and had a profound effect on human evolution, scientists say.

Flower-eating mammals competed with dinosaurs

Last Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 17:55

Once the dinosaurs disappeared, the mammals continued to prosper eating angiosperms, the flowering plants that only started to appear around 140 million years ago.