Mongooses and weasels, often mistaken, are distinct creatures with unique traits. Mongooses, related to cats, thrive in ...

MAMMALS come in all sizes from the largest of all, blue whales, to the smallest like the Least shrew. Whales are entirely ...

Few pests annoy me more than voles. They suck down seedlings overnight, leaving no evidence that a plant had stood there ...

Puff adders protect African crops by eating rodents. They outcompete mammals during outbreaks and need no care.

More than 20,000 cars pass by the site daily, but the toxic threat has been quietly growing and spreading unnoticed.

North American river otters once lived in every major river system in Pennsylvania. But because of development, otters ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...