A critically endangered fox, called "one of the rarest mammals in the world," was recently caught on camera by a Northern ...

The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With today’s advanced research, we can ...

Researchers feared the population was gone after no sightings in eight years and flooding in 2017 and 2023 that threatened ...

When he wasn’t examining extinct rodent-like skulls in Uruguay, Darwin remarked on “ludicrous” looking capybara making “peculiar” grunts. The animals, he remarked, ...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals ...

A small rodent that lived only on a single island off Australia is likely the world's first mammal to become a casualty of climate change, scientists reported in June 2016.The government of ...

Endemic rodents of Hispaniola: biogeography and extinction timing during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews , 2022; 297: 107828 DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107828 Cite This Page : ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that smaller islands within the Wallacea ...

Two species that were previously extinct on the Galapagos Islands have reappeared a decade after an invasive predator population was eradicated, showing how impactful restoring and re-wilding ...

David Pape / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. During the later Cenozoic Era, herds of Platygonus — 100-pound, plant-eating mammals closely related to pigs — blackened the plains of North ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing seven species of pangolin, often poached for their scales and meat, as ...

The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With today’s advanced research, we can learn so much from animals that haven’t even existed during our ...