It can be hard to keep track of which animals are rodents; it can also be difficult to track which animals fall under the label of mammal. If you’ve ever wondered whether rodents are mammals, you’ve ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Recent testing by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in mammal species. TPWD said HPAI was detected in foxes ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans and other mammals might sound like something out of sci-fi movie. Yet new findings indicate that the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In the final era of the Cretaceous, giant reptiles were not the only ones navigating a changing planet. Tiny fossils suggest that many small mammals embraced ground-based living long before the ...

It is just not being a healthy, vibrant whale," said Giancarlo Rulli with the Marine Mammal Center. RELATED: More dead whales wash up in San Francisco Bay Fire crews spent hours spraying it down ...

and identified which genetic features have been conserved across mammals—and which ones have uniquely changed in humans over the course of evolution. This study advances our understanding of how the ...

Marine Mammal Center officials announced the sad outcome at around 4:40 p.m. "Unfortunately, today the whale became trapped and was unable to be freed from the mudflat. Because this animal was ...

This is one of several ways the nervous system regulates ion movement—and, in turn, neurological function—in mammals and birds. These receptors fall into two broad categories, acting like molecular on ...

John Warner, CEO of the Marine Mammal Care Center in Los Angeles - which is treating sea life sickened by the bloom - told the BBC these animals aren't "naturally aggressive or actually attack ...

ULAANBAATAR: A previously unknown species of ancient mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, about 90 million years ago, has been recorded for the first time in Mongolia.

Walt Disney World is saying "jambo" to its "newest addition to the savanna," at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, Tucker. The baby boy giraffe was recently born to mother Mara, a Masai giraffe ...