The wolverine (Gulo gulo) is a mammal that lives in colder regions. A wolverine looks similar to a small bear with dark brown ...

During the early Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years ago, a species of small mammal known as Mixodectes pungens […] ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu ...

Mammals as a group use every possible form of locomotion. Terrestrial species walk, run, jump, climb, hop, swing, dig, and burrow. Aquatic ones swim, shuffle, and dive. A few even fly. Diet and ...

Seagrass die-offs in Florida often occur when nutrient pollution (phosphorus and nitrogen) flows into estuaries from farms, golf courses, street water and septic seepage. Those nutrients then fuel ...

In winter, their diet becomes a bit coarse and consists of bark, twigs, and buds. During the day, cottontails often remain hidden in vegetation. If spotted, they flee from prey with a zigzag ...

The Siwaliks, part of the outer Himalayas, span Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Fossils found here reveal a rich ...

Assemblages of fossil mammals from the same site can also be ... locomotion pattern and diet. Figure 4 a-c illustrates the percentage of the Ndolanya species assigned to each category, showing ...

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

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...