As spring awakens the natural world, unexpected creatures — from mice to a mysterious short-tailed shrew — find their way ...

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources took aim Wednesday at the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), arguing both landmark statutes ...

The "pseudo-spring" of the last week of February brought about many happenings in nature. After the first three weeks of the month that averaged a temperature of only about 4 degrees above zero, the ...

A minister said "there's never been a better day to be a baby wombat in Australia" after an official confirmed the influencer ...

The early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs over 150 million years ago likely had dark, dusky brown fur, helping ...

Pangolins are vital for the ecosystem but face severe threats due to illegal trafficking and habitat destruction, requiring ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

Australia's top diplomat urged a visiting American influencer on Thursday to "leave the baby wombat alone", after a video appeared to show the woman pestering a young marsupial. In a now-deleted video ...

Gray wolves aren't too picky about their food sources. They eat small mammals, birds and reptiles, according to the CDFW, and scavenge dead carcasses. If hungry enough, they'll hunt larger animals ...

Described as an "egg on legs," you won't find the Western burrowing owl bird hooting from the tree canopy. This little bird makes its nests underground. Sadly, though, its population has fallen ...

If ground squirrels or other burrowing mammals vanish, the owls lose not just neighbors but their homes, too. The Burrowing Owl or Luck owl perched on the ground beside its nest. Species Athene ...