Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic mammals appear bulkier than species living closer to the equator? There’s a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large wild mammals – from elephants to antelopes – are already struggling to cope with global warming. Now new research shows that ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

If textbooks ever made you believe mammals like humans, cats, and kangaroos first evolved somewhere up north, think again. A remarkable discovery from Australia has flipped our understanding of mammal ...

For mammals, one secret to a long life may be spending it living with friends and family. An analysis of the life spans and social lives of nearly 1,000 mammal species shows that species that live in ...

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