In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists wish to ...

Hantavirus isn't just in deer mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study from the University of New Mexico, which found the virus in a quarter of more than 1,400 small mammals tested across the ...

Advances in dinosaur knowledge have trickled into museums and popular depictions of the animals over the past years, something the new study's authors hope can now happen for ancient mammals.

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

HAS BEEN FOUND IN 30 SMALL MAMMAL SPECIES IN NEW MEXICO, INCLUDING RODENTS LIKE GROUND SQUIRRELS, CHIPMUNKS, GOPHERS AND RATS, RESEARCHERS SAY 1500 SMALL MAMMALS TESTED POSITIVE BETWEEN 2019 AND ...