For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...

A group of students tried to release cute and seemingly harmless little mammals in Colorado — and the critters turned out to be bolder than they bargained for, video shows. The students from ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

A Greek charity has been treating dozens of orphaned, sick and injured Mediterranean monk seals, rare marine mammals whose population had dwindled so dramatically that the species at one point faced ...

We might think they’re safe since they ‘breed like rabbits,’ but many rabbits and hares are threatened with extinction Graham Duggan Whether we think of rabbits and hares as the cute ...

Same goes for those cute flying squirrels and burrowing owls. The trouble is, all species are unique and deserve protection—especially in the face of increasing threats to their habitats and ...

A new study from researchers at the University of St. Andrews’s Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland suggests that some seals ...

Japan was once home to dozens of the cute mammals. But the species became endangered in the wild, and trade in sea otters fell under strict regulations. Japanese aquariums tried to breed otters in ...