Animals with longer lifespans that give birth to a smaller number of offspring are less vulnerable to extreme weather than those that live for a short time and have many young, according to a new ...

Later, some of those animals evolved to live in larger family groups that include the adult offspring of a monogamous pair, but typically only one pair in each social group breeds.

Large, long-lived animals can survive, reproduce and raise their offspring in severe conditions such as prolonged drought, much more sustainably than small, short-lived animals can. The ability to ...

A new study investigates how different mammals react to climate change. Animals that live for a long time and/or produce less offspring -- like bears and bison -- are more resilient than small ...

Life Female mammals that suckle another’s young have more offspring An analysis of 1800 mammalian species shows that those in which females suckle not just their young but those of other females ...

Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned in 1996 from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer, the same process used to created the new monkeys.

Adult bi-paternal offspring generated through direct modification of imprinted genes in mammals Journal: Cell Stem Cell Published: 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.01.005 Affiliations: 7 ...

A dolphin and its calf have been rescued from the Louisiana pond they were trapped in for nearly two years. The two animals were stuck in the pond system near Grand Isle in the Pelican State ...

The embryos in question were mice and were sent to the ISS in August 2021 as frozen fertilized cells. While on the ISS, they were thawed and kept in a special setup at body temperature. Over the ...