Mammals

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world

Fossils show Jurassic mammals lived longer and grew more slowly than today

A team analysed the fossils of an adult and a juvenile Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, a mouse-sized mammal that lived about 166 million years ago, which were found on the island

<p>A vixen suckling her three fox cubs in early morning light on Sherkin Island, Co Cork. Picture: Robbie Murphy/Provision</p>

outdoors

Richard Collins: New research on why male mammals cannot supply milk to their young

world

Discovered: 150-year-old platypus specimen that proved some mammals lay eggs

health and wellbeing

Applicance of Science: Only mammals make milk, right?

world

Dozens of mammals could be susceptible to coronavirus, study suggests

home and gardens

Richard Collins: Mammals bucking the trend with an expansion

Richard Collins: A whale of a time off the Beara Peninsula

Spring was late this year, migrant birds being slow to arrive. Things were different at sea; whales and basking sharks turned up earlier than usual, writes Richard Collins.

Mon, 23 Apr, 2018

You have to hand it to great apes

This week Richard Collins gives us the low down on parenting techniques so primal we have them in common with apes and gorillas.

Mon, 23 Jan, 2017

Bone can be a boon for some

Richard Collins looks at the evolution of the baculum or penis bone that has long disappeared from the human race but still appears in some mammals.

Mon, 09 Jan, 2017

Ocean mammals on the move

FISH and birds of Irish coastal waters seem to be moving house, writes Richard Collins.

Mon, 27 Apr, 2015