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 ...

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

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Animals Land Mammals Bats Vampire bats have a really strange way of getting energy, scientists discover after putting them on treadmills ...

New research has revealed the evolutionary reason anteaters have evolved at least a dozen times since the time of the ...

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

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 ...