On a small island off the southern coast of Australia, a spiky mammal emerged from the forest and walked through a clearing. Its brief appearance, captured by a nearby trail camera, turned out to be ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms.

Allen Thomson on this subject in a late number of NATURE induces me again to draw attention to some objections I offered to the placental classification ... from other mammals; but his names ...

CREDIT: Chester et al. 2025 “This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs,” study co-author ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

“This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs,” said Chester, a curatorial affiliate of vertebrate ...

The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Every March, college basketball fans print out brackets and try ...

A new study has found that exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy and actually smoking increase the risk of placental abruption, a complication that can be fatal to both parent and baby ...

If a puma, a Ginkgo tree, and a narwhal all step into a ring, who’s winning the fight? March Mammal Madness comes as close as one can to answering this question; though the annual event doesn’t ...