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 ...

The federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was amended in 1970 to include all warm-blooded animals who are commonly experimented upon. However, the term “animals,” for purposes of the protections delineated ...

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 ...