When the spotted bat was first described in 1891 it was considered to be one of the rarest mammals in the world. Even by 1965 ...

An ancient mammal species that first evolved 200 million years ago — when dinosaurs roamed the Earth — still exists today, and scientists finally have proof. The animal — named “Attenborough’s ...

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of ...

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found ...

A predatory mammal-like animal from the Jurassic seems to have characteristics of both a platypus and an otter.

Mammal bones, especially skulls, are used for identification, and to work out the evolutionary history of each species. The ...

NOAA Fisheries created a series of forms that collect valuable stranding information through a process known as Level A data collection. Stranding network responders use a series of forms to collect ...

Teeth can reveal a lot, such as how the earliest mammals lived with their neighbors. Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of ...

The public comment period on this action ended on July 31, 2019. NOAA Fisheries accepted comments on proposed policies and procedures for the maintenance of data and administration of the National ...

A recent study highlights that over 1,000 new species of mammals have been described globally during the last dozen years, a finding that contradicts the notion that our mammalian relatives are well ...

Marine Mammal Care Center launches a $65M campaign for a new wildlife hospital and research center on the Redondo Beach ...