Small mammals are early warning systems for environmental damage, but many species look almost identical, making them hard to track. Scientists have developed a new footprint-based method that can ...

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

It might be less visible than dwindling lion populations or vanishing pandas, but the quiet crisis of small mammal extinction ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species from 65 million years ago. A fossil of a skull and jaws of the newly discovered species were ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Research from the 2025 Regional Mammal Red List shows that one in five mammals are threatened with extinction.

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is ...