PROF. FLOWER'S valuable “Osteology of the Mammalia” holds so high a position among scientific manuals that the appearance of a second edition requires but a passing notice from us. The author ...

Whilst researching the potential stories for the Mammals Heat episode we came across a newly described behaviour about white sifaka lemurs in Madagascar hugging tree trunks to keep cool!

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...

Scientists assessing dangers posed to the world’s trees have revealed that more than a third of species are facing extinction in the wild. The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened ...

2: Marine Mammals and Smaller Terrestrial Mammals ... In Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews. ed. Luckett , W. P. (New York: Plenum Press ,1980) 133-169.

It is also critically endangered and highly evolutionarily distinct with no close relatives, a combination that makes its branch one of most precarious on the mammal evolutionary tree. In the ...