NEW BEDFORD — A new book published by the New Bedford Whaling Museum honors the groundbreaking work of two scientists who helped shape the way we think about life in the world’s oceans. William E.

You are looking at one of the most important sensory shifts in mammal history: the rise of sensitive hearing. Modern mammals ...

Why are some animals good at learning sounds? Did this skill appear when animals started 'faking' their body size by lowering calls? In a new study on a wide range of mammals,researchers revisit this ...

NOT FOR NOTHING is the Mammals' new release named "Departure." Besides preparing listeners for the unlikely cover tunes that lurk within -- Nirvana's "Come as You Are" and Morphine's "Do Not Go ...

On discs: Library of Natural Socuds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, in association with Conservation International. On cover of accompanying pamphlet: Sounds of ...

A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for ...

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear like us ...

Mammals make all manner of sounds, but their calls rarely resemble music. The culprit? A lack of rhythm—the temporal sequence that organizes sounds, and the pauses between them, into a repeatable ...

In early December 2019, more than 2,700 marine mammal scientists, policymakers, students, and activists, as well as journalists and others interested in the latest marine mammal science developments, ...

A new book dives into the evolutionary history of mammals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shortly after dinosaurs got their ...

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