It might be less visible than dwindling lion populations or vanishing pandas, but the quiet crisis of small mammal extinction ...

Research from the 2025 Regional Mammal Red List shows that one in five mammals are threatened with extinction.

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

New research has dramatically expanded the known roster of mammals on Earth. A new review published in the Journal of Mammalogy shows that the number of living mammal species has surged to nearly ...

Small mammals are early warning systems for environmental damage, but many species look almost identical, making them hard to track. Scientists have developed a new footprint-based method that can ...

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 ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Many populations improved because the Marine Mammal Protection Act worked.

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 ...

With only fragments of evidence and massive unexplored habitat, the saola may still exist despite a decade of silence.

Around 20% of species threatened with extinction, 11.5% near threatened, shows latest Mammal Red List by Endangered Wildlife ...

Vietnam is a treasure trove of mammalian diversity: it’s home to the highest number of primate species in mainland Southeast Asia and a host of unique species found nowhere else on the planet. However ...