Here are eight tiny tyne creatures known as the smallest mammals of the earth. At only 1.3g, the extinct B. vanhouteni is believed to be the smallest mammal that ever lived. This tiny, shrew-like ...

Hague and Gorbunov rode up to the station aboard Freedom in late September, on the launch of SpaceX's Crew-9 mission.

Early mammals had dark inconspicuous fur and only came out at night until dinosaurs became extinct, scientists believe. A study of colouration of mammals that lived in the Mesozoic era – around ...

A Worthing-based scientist is highlighting the huge threats sharks face and just how seriously endangered they are.

New book posits that humans risk extinction if we don’t begin the move offworld in a serious and ambitious way.

Mar. 13, 2025 — A recent study has reclassified the species commonly known as the Javan rhinoceros, proposing a more precise scientific name: Eurhinoceros sondaicus. The research highlights key ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. See how many works of prose and poetry by popular Irish ...

Mammals are distinct from birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates in three key ways. First, all mammals have fur or hair. In some species this presents as a very conspicuous, thick coat, ...

What you’d be less likely to notice are your closest relatives. Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study ...

O ne-horned rhinoceroses are the subject of a new study of the differences in appearance, behavior, and evolutionary history ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...