DENVER (CBS4)-- A new, prehistoric mammal has been discovered and it is described as "beyond bizarre." Paleontologists at the Denver Musuem of Nature and Science were part of a team of researchers ...

It may not be at the top of your list for mammals you were hoping for, but researchers working in Indonesia have a discovered a new species of rat.It's called the "hog-nosed rat", and Australia's ...

The Mammal Diversity Database lists 1,579 additions since 2005. These include 805 new descriptions and 774 species splits.

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is home to nearly 3,000 animals and Julie Wright is visiting with some of the smallest critters that call the popular attraction home. These tiny ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

The bald eagle serves as the majestic symbol of the country, but there’s a push to name another animal as the first official national mammal. A bill in the federal house would recognize bison as the ...

A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world’s first mammal known to have become extinct due to “human-induced climate change,” the government says. The Bramble ...

Little is known about the macrohabitat associations of rodents and shrews in prairie landscapes because of the logistic constraints of conventional trapping. We used the remains of 60,972 small ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – The March Mammal Madness tournament, based on the NCAA event, features simulated battles of mammals encountering each other in the wild. Scientists plan each tournament ...

The earliest known members of a group of mammals that survived for 130 million years already had the anatomical features that enabled the animals to thrive in the shadows of dinosaurs — and to survive ...

The Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) announced the upcoming auction of low-number right whale license plates as part of its Marine Mammal Conservation Campaign. The<a class="excerpt-read-more" ...

There is no arguing that Treasure MammaL is one of the strangest musical acts in the Valley of the Sun. When the group drops its next album, I Will Cut You With My EBT Card, it will enter the argument ...