The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

Researchers recently investigated hammer-headed bat populations in southern Cameroon. The mixed-methods investigation was ...

Echidnas are quill-covered mammals that are native to Australia and New Guinea. They lay eggs like their platypus cousins, ...

As early as the 1920s, some native mammals of South America, Asia and Africa have been introduced to Texas; now many of them have gone free range.

If textbooks ever made you believe mammals like humans, cats, and kangaroos first evolved somewhere up north, think again. A remarkable discovery from Australia has flipped our understanding of mammal ...

US News Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their butts awarded ‘Ig Nobel Prize’ By Natalie O'Neill Published Sep. 13, 2024, 1:18 p.m. ET ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their ...

New research suggests that land-based echidnas descended from semi-aquatic mammals. Gunjan Pandey CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and ...