A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

What if you could predict where the world’s hidden mammal species lurked? Researchers at Radford University and Ohio State University think they can do just that. Their findings were published Monday ...

Even before the reign of the dinosaurs ended in a mass extinction event about 65 million years ago, mammals had already gotten a humble but solid foothold. That's just one of the findings from a close ...

The smallest mammals on Earth prove that survival, agility, and a voracious appetite have nothing to do with scale.

At least hundreds of so-far unidentified species of mammals are hiding in plain sight around the world, a new study suggests. Researchers found that most of these hidden mammals are small bodied, many ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Some animals that used to live across West Virginia have gone extinct.

Every spring I bring my students to the desert of northwestern New Mexico, just north of Chaco Canyon, where the ancestral Pueblo people built a great city out of rocks a millennium ago. As we hike ...

There have been reports of rabies in bats in Tennessee, but skunks are the most common carrier of the disease in the state, according to the wildlife agency. A human hasn't contracted rabies from bat ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of ...

Beyond bats’ symbolism as creepy creatures at Halloween, San Mateo County is a year-round home to a number of different ...

The study explores the evolutionary origins of the lifespan difference between women and men. Across the globe, women ...