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 ...

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

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

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

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

The smallest mammals on Earth are vanishing faster than most people realize, and the line between survival and oblivion has ...

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 ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

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