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.

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 ...

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 ...