Q. My brother (a basketball player) says giraffes are the biggest land animals because they are the tallest. How do scientists determine what the biggest animals are? A. Scientists, as well as people ...

There are a number of “rules” based on physical properties, that influence the shape and size of animals. Consider for instance Bergmann’s Rule, which says that if a mammal has a large geographic ...

Chewing: We don’t think about it, we just do it. But biologists don’t know a lot about how chewing behavior leaves telltale signs on the underlying bones. To find out, researchers at the Jacobs School ...

A French study has cast new light on how human activity has shaped the morphological evolution of animals over the last millennium. Conducted by researchers at the French National Centre for ...

Smaller animals have larger brains relative to their bodies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If terms like "bird brain" and ...

Since the Middle Ages, the size of wild and domestic animals has largely been shaped by human selection: domestic animals are ...