Few mammals sleep as deeply as the ampurta. When the blonde, rat-like marsupial returns to its burrow after a night of hunting in the Australian desert, it drifts into a slumber known as torpor. While ...

On a damp, mist-laced slope of the eastern Andes, a small creature with reddish-brown fur and a black facial mask peeked from the edge of a pitfall trap. It was August 16, 2018, and biologist Silvia ...

04-OCT-2025 - Naturalis presents the first type catalogue of its mammal collection: a comprehensive overview of 405 scientific names with their official tangible type specimens. Five years of research ...

Into this wilderness trekked Silvia Pavan, a Brazilian biologist and professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. She was chasing a long-lost species of squirrel, but what she found instead was even rarer: “The ...

Police in Berlin confirmed a wallaby -- a marsupial resembling a small kangaroo -- was spotted on the loose in the southwest area of the German capital.

Scientists have discovered a new species of marsupial in Australia’s bushland, closely related to the kangaroo. Researchers have identified a new species of bushland marsupial that is closely related ...

The New South Wales government has unveiled plans for the Great Koala National Park, a 475,000-hectare reserve that combines existing protected areas with 176,000 hectares of state forest to safeguard ...

Are buffalo and bison the same? How can you tell a toad from a frog? This article clears up confusion on mixed-up groups of animals.

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions.

Population bottlenecks caused by stark population loss due to illness or habitat destruction caused mammals' disease immunity to decline, according to a new study led by computational biologists in ...