Modern humans belong to a small minority of monogamous mammals and, in terms of partner fidelity, rank between the Eurasian beaver and the white-handed gibbon. That's the conclusion of evolutionary ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...

A new study found 332 types of complex sugar molecules in the seals' milk, some of which help protect young from harmful ...

New research has dramatically expanded the known roster of mammals on Earth. A new review published in the Journal of ...

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

LMMN hopes to secure funding for a permanent facility, which would allow the organization to expand rescue capacity, research ...

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 ...

Meerkats, the little African carnivores, stood at the head of the violent class. Ape shall never kill ape. The primate society in the 1973 film "Battle for the Planet of the Apes," the fifth ...

A Hawaiian monk seal swims in a pool after receiving a bird flu vaccine at Ke Kai Ola in Kailua-Kona. The endangered Hawaiian ...

In the end, The Invisible Mammal underscores how the survival of bats is inseparable from the health of our ecosystems and, ultimately, from our own. Their work is not just conservation—it’s ...

Zoetis, a veterinary pharmaceutical company, donated some doses of its bird flu vaccine. In October, at four-months-old, the ...