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.

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall—literally.

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 ...

Most mammals have two sex chromosomes, either two "X" chromosomes (to make a female) or an "X" and a "Y" (to make a male). Not only do platypuses have 10 instead of two, but they seem closer to ...