Chemistry helps! The most important adaptation is how animals regulate their body temperature. Animals can be either warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Warm-blooded animals, which are mostly birds and ...

The findings also imply that endothermy can’t fully explain why warm-blooded animals such as birds escaped the fate of the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, though the paper doesn’t offer an ...

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...

Mammals are warm-blooded animals with hair or fur and can produce milk to feed their young. They have three ear bones, which allow for better hearing. They also have a special muscle called a ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a 65 ...

A new case of New World screwworm has been detected in a Mexican cow south of the U.S. border. Despite this, the USDA has confirmed that ...