Since marine mammals were federally protected, the only course of action for federal and state officials was to find a nonlethal way to keep the sea lions away from the locks. Steve knew the task ...

A show-stopping sea creature dazzled boaters off the coast of California, leaving onlookers “blown away.” On July 4, boaters ...

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

Mammals are warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterized by their hair or fur, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands in females. While most mammals live exclusively on land, a fascinating ...

Historical beliefs of mammals’ daily activity periods may not hold true — especially in regions seeing increased human development, according to a global study. Camera trap data collected by a Texas A ...

The Fantastic Beasts of John James Audubon’s Little-Known Book on Mammals The American naturalist spent the last years of his life cataloguing America’s four-legged creatures ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, consciousness and even what it means to be human ...

By establishing a standardized survey protocol to camera-trap mammals, the team at Snapshot USA says it hopes to create a data set that can be used to formulate effective conservation strategies.

Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study published March 13 in the journal Science.

The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Every March, college basketball fans print out brackets and try ...

The World’s Largest Mammal Migration Is Taking Place in Zambia Right Now Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Kasanka National Park for a few months, and scientists are ...