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

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

may have this small mammal as a resident. As a general appearance indicates, the short-tailed shrew is more fossorial than other shrews, tunneling extensively, and to depths of 50 cm (20 in). Within ...

Now, biologists and other scientists are suggesting that the personality of those small mammals that are a part of the ecosystem matters, too. And maybe quite a bit. The researchers involved ...

Marine mammals—a group of animals that are ecologically tied to the ocean environment—cannot thrive in confinement. No concrete tank or small sea pen can provide ... not been directly imported into ...