Scientists found a “completely spiny,” 2-foot-long mammal in a forest of Colombia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Niels van Altena via Unsplash In a darkened forest of ...

In a darkened forest of central Colombia, a 2-foot-long mammal climbed a tree and paused to rest its “completely spiny” body. Its elusive lifestyle and cryptic appearance largely helped it go ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

There was, briefly, a risk that FT Alphaville’s recent Art of the Chart show would occur without any small caged mammal representation. But the arc of the mammalian universe bends towards content, and ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Explore the fascinating process of python digestion and how these reptiles regenerate their intestines after every meal.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, have found that previous exposure to certain seasonal influenza viruses ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals -- an extinct family known as ... to a mature adult that weighed about 1.3 kilograms, or 2.9 pounds. The anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws indicate ...

The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...