IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

Mammal evolution has been flipped on its head, according to new research that suggests marsupials are the more evolved mammals. By estimating how the common ancestor of mammals reproduced and ...

In a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers estimated the maximal longevity, gestation period, and sexual maturity age using deoxyribonucleic methylation (DNAm) by ...