If the results are promising, veterinarians hope to give the shots to wild Hawaiian monk seals, which are endangered.

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths.

The MMPA aims to promote the health and stability of marine ecosystems by maintaining marine mammal populations at ...

In late September 2015 in the highlands of Ethiopia, researcher and mammologist William T. Stanley caught a tiny shrew.

A remarkably well-preserved fossil discovered in China suggests that millions of years ago, some mammals actively hunted dinosaurs that were several times their size. The 125-million-year-old bones, ...

F lying foxes are some of the largest bats in the world. With a body the size of a cat and a wingspan that would make an ...

Extinctions of megafauna species during the Late Quaternary dramatically reduced the global diversity of mammals. There is intense debate over the causes of these extinctions, especially regarding the ...

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Currently, the African elephant is considered the largest living land mammal (and also animal) in the world. Coming in at 7 meters (23 feet) long and 3.7 meters (12 feet) tall, these extant giants ...

A Vancouver whale watching company has been charged with disturbing a marine mammal under the federal Fisheries Act.

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