For mammals, one secret to a long life may be spending it living with friends and family. An analysis of the life spans and social lives of nearly 1,000 mammal species shows that species that live in ...

A large international study reveals that mammals tend to live longer when reproduction is suppressed. On average, lifespan increases by about 10 percent, though the reasons differ for males and ...

Mammals only have one life to live, but the length of that life varies greatly. While some shrews shuffle off this mortal coil in less than 14 months, bowhead whales can swim in Arctic waters for more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contraception May Extend The Life of Some Mammal Groups by 10% A surprising new study has found that blocking reproduction in some ...

From the tiniest bat to the massive blue whale, all mammals share the ability to nurture their young on milk and regulate their own temperatures. Mammals from tiny shrews to giant anteaters have ...

More than 300 mammal species have gone extinct since shortly before the last ice age, a loss of more than 2.5 billion years of evolutionary history across all ancestral lines, a sweeping study reports ...

Some chemical tags on DNA, called epigenetic factors, that are present at a young age can affect the maximum life spans of mammal species. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...