Almost all mammals give birth rather than laying eggs, and we have new clues about when they began to do so ...

Take a dive into the museum’s marine mammal collection and learn how a rare North American whale is racing against extinction Emma Saaty This plate of baleen came from the critically endangered Rice’s ...

Squirrels and raccoons turn up in backyards and along roadsides across Honduras. No modern map shows where in the country ...

An analysis of fossils from the country hints that animals from the north stayed in a "holding pen" between seven million and ...

An eight-year international research effort has produced the most comprehensive review of Honduras' mammals since 1998, ...

Feral cats and foxes now roam across almost all of Australia. These predators are a major reason why many species have been driven to extinction. After feral cats and foxes are removed, authorities ...

The mammal tree of life is a real leaner. Some branches are weighed down with thousands of species — we’re looking at you, rodents and bats — while others hold just a few species. Now we may have a ...

A recent study highlights that over 1,000 new species of mammals have been described globally during the last dozen years, a finding that contradicts the notion that our mammalian relatives are well ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is what might ...

A new study, published today in the journal Nature, has provided the most detailed timeline of mammal evolution to date. The research describes a new and fast computational approach to obtain ...