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

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

A research team led by Professor Li Sheng from the School of Life Sciences at Peking University published a study that ...

Over the next seven years, the U.S. Navy estimates its ships will injure or kill just two whales in collisions as it tests ...

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 ...

You are looking at one of the most important sensory shifts in mammal history: the rise of sensitive hearing. Modern mammals ...

Knowable Magazine reports that drones are revolutionizing whale research by safely collecting data and minimizing ...

The most intriguing fossils tell a story about the animal’s life, or where and how it lived, and paleontologists have now uncovered a doozy. The fossils of a dinosaur and a small mammal have been ...

An extremely well-preserved rodentlike fossil recently discovered in China provides some of the best evidence yet for how the earliest human ancestors lived. Named Megaconus mammaliaformis, the animal ...

A new mammal has been identified on the French island of Corsica, looking like a cross between a cat and a fox. It is hoped that this "cat-fox"—which has been legendary amongst locals for ...

The report shows improvement related to deaths but continued hearing loss and other injuries from some exercises.