A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna ...

Ohio’s white-tailed deer might seem like an obvious state symbol, but that familiarity is exactly why it works. Few animals ...

Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.

A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for conservation.

Quick Take The Louisiana black bear, a subspecies of the American black bear, once almost disappeared from the state entirely ...

Advanced biomechanical modeling shows that early mammal ancestors likely used an eardrum to hear airborne sounds 250 million ...

The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new ...

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that ...

An international collaboration between scientists and researchers has lead to the discovery of Earth's earliest known mammal — the 225 million-year-old Brasilodon quadrangularis. Using fossil tooth ...

Choosing a mammal to represent a state can be difficult. Strong reasons for selection may relate to the animal’s majesty, the ...

A wounded California sea lion has been turning heads near Pier 39, where onlookers and rescuers have spotted a deep, fresh ...