There are 40 cat species (not taking into account the various breeds of domesticated cats, which are over 70) naturally ...

However, the presence of ungulates—browsing mammals like deer, goats, and pigs—poses a significant threat to these areas, council and community assets, and a safety risk to recreation users.

The chevrotain, also known as the mouse deer, is one of the tiniest hoofed mammals in the world, standing just around 12 inches tall. Despite its small size, this elusive creature is a master of ...

A herd of Saiga antelope journeys on its migration route across Kazakhstan. The University of Wyoming’s Matt Kauffman, Shannon Albeke and William Kirkpatrick were among 80 scientists worldwide who ...

5 fun facts about evolution The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago. There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection to ...

A new set of maps that document the movements of ungulates is now published in the fourth volume of the “Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States.” The maps in this report series reveal the ...

A new study in southeast Spain underscores the distinct roles of wild and domestic ungulates in shaping vegetation dynamics, emphasizing the importance of preserving traditional transhumant ...

The increasing availability of advanced sequencing technologies has seen the rapid growth of ungulate genomic resources, which offers an exceptional opportunity to understand their adaptive evolution.

Ungulates are a group of hoofed animals that have long interacted with humans as essential sources of food, labor, clothing, and transportation. These consist of domesticated, feral, and wild species ...

In regressive evolution, organisms lose complex features and can appear to evolve "in reverse." But evolution doesn't retrace its steps, experts said.