According to a new study published in the Journal of Mammalogy, the number of living mammal species has increased by 25% ...

Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...

A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six ...

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna ...

Mammals are animals that have hair, give birth to live young (except the platypus and spiny anteaters), nurse their young with milk produced by the mother, and control their body temperatures from ...

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

A large international study reveals that mammals tend to live longer when reproduction is suppressed. On average, lifespan ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species from 65 million years ago. A fossil of a skull and jaws of the newly discovered species were ...

Whale ancestors were terrestrial mammals that walked on four legs. This bone structure that helped them walk eventually ...