2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...

6+ day, 41+ min ago   (530+ words) The extinct American cheetah wasn’t a true cheetah at all, say biologists in new research overturning our previous understanding of the legendary predator, revealing a cautionary tale about superficial scientific interpretations. In a recent paper published in Current Biology, a…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (121+ words) A legendary predator's Arctic fossils reveal it was nothing like its nickname suggests—a fish-eating cat, not a pronghorn sprinter. By Space War Editorial Team · Editorial process Published September 8, 2026 Two of those Yukon specimens had been assigned to other cats,…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1055+ words) Ancient DNA reveals that the American cheetah was actually closer to pumas, ranged into Arctic Yukon, and may have regularly eaten fish. For a long time, the extinct animal known as the American cheetah seemed to have a simple story....

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (379+ words) Cat bones from the Klondike goldfields and a cave near Old Crow had been tentatively identified as puma. Mitochondrial genomes say they are Miracinonyx trumani, and the bone chemistry of the northern animals has a parsimonious explanation, the authors write:…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (751+ words) Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world's large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent decades, all we knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the picture. Ancient DNA is damaged and degraded…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (786+ words) By Deon de Jager and Eline Lorenzen Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world’s large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent decades, all we knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (578+ words) When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife in 2022 and 2023, they came across something unexpected: seven naturally mummified cheetahs in five caves near the northern city of Arar. The remains…...