A petite, golden bat with uniquely shaped ears can only be found in an eroding hot cave on the far tip of western Cuba. Once ...

The tapir, South America's largest land mammal, plays a key role in maintaining the biodiversity of forests and wetlands. Conservation biologist Patrícia Medici works to protect this elusive species.

Contact her at [email protected] They're small, furry and look like mice — but scientists say they're actually a new species of hedgehogs. An international collaboration of ...

For more than 20 years, the Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis), a type of tiny, mountain-dwelling mammal with a teddy bear face, had eluded scientists in the Tianshan Mountains (map) of northwestern China.

Wildlife rangers found a 2-foot-long creature with a pink belly in a forest of China and discovered a “cute” new species, scientists said. Photo from Declan Sun via Unsplash In a forest of ...

Today's lorises, cute as some are, number among few known venomous mammals; to fight, they lick special inner-elbow glands for poisonous oil that fills grooves in their teeth. Pygmy lorises were ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...