Discover more about the special animals that each of the 50 states chose, their conservation status, and their significance.

Even someone who has put up with with a cat from hell would rather deal with hisses and hairballs than a thing with knives for teeth and a craving for flesh. Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae was not just ...

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) - Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution, examining ear anatomy of living and extinct mammals and their close relatives to determine ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed. More mammals were living on the ground several ...

Autumn brings to mind Halloween, pumpkins and of course, bats. Bats are mammals, meaning they are warm blooded and give birth to live pups and nurse them. They generally give birth to one pup, ...

One of the world’s largest outbreaks of bird flu, which led to the slaughter of millions of chickens to limit its spread, appears to be spilling over into mammals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Scientists around the world declared an end on Wednesday to a moratorium on research into mutant forms of the deadly H5N1 bird flu that can be transmitted directly among ...