The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

New research has dramatically expanded the known roster of mammals on Earth. A new review published in the Journal of Mammalogy shows that the number of living mammal species has surged to nearly ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Chris Hansen conducted a study using trail cameras to track mammal diversity in urban areas. Hansen, a University of Montana Ph.D. graduate, used 178 trail cameras to study how ...

Postdoctoral researcher Chris Hansen installs a trail camera in the high country above Missoula to study the effects of urbanization on mammal diversity. (UM News Service photo) A trail-camera image ...

Understanding factors affecting the functional diversity of ecological communities is an important goal for ecologists and conservationists. Previous work has largely been conducted at the community ...

With access to a mammoth set of global-scale climate data and a novel strategy, a team from Utah State University identified several factors to help answer a fundamental ecological question: what an ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species from 65 million years ago. A fossil of a skull and jaws of the newly discovered species were ...

A new study reveals that protected areas in Southeast Asia not only boost bird and mammal diversity within their confines, but they also elevate numbers of species in nearby unprotected habitats. The ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...

Scientists estimate that only 10% of all the species on the planet have been described. Among our closest kin, mammals, that number jumps to 80%, but even this well-studied group still holds mysteries ...