16-02-24 New research reveals that the evolutionary history of glyptodonts -- huge, armored mammals that went extinct in the Americas at the end of the last ice age -- is unexpectedly brief. The work, published this week in the journal Current Biology by an...

15-03-20 A newly discovered crocodilian ancestor may have filled one of North America's top predator roles before dinosaurs arrived on the continent. Carnufex carolinensis, or the Carolina Butcher, was a 9-foot long, land-dwelling crocodylomorph that walked...

14-07-15 One of the riddles of mammal evolution explained: the strong conservation of the number of trunk vertebrae（脊椎） . Researchers of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the University of Utah show that this conservation is probably due to the essen...

14-06-30 Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of round-eared sengi（象鼩）, or elephant-shrew, in the remote deserts of southwestern Africa. This is the third new species of sengi to be discovered in the wild in th...

14-01-24 If you were a shrew（鼩鼱科） snuffling around a North American forest, you would be 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than if you were a moose（驼鹿） grazing nearby. That is just one of the findings of a new University of Colorado...

13-11-06 No living mammal is more peculiar（独特的） than the platypus（鸭嘴兽） . It has a broad, duck-like bill, thick, otter-like fur, and webbed, beaver-like feet. The platypus lays eggs rather than gives birth to live young, its snout is covered with el...

13-05-19 Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published today, May 15, in the jo...

13-03-06 University of Florida paleontologists（古生物学者） have discovered remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians（鳄目动物） and a mammal previously unknown to science during recent Panama Canal excavations that began in 2009. The two new a...

12-09-05 Alien mammals, including mink, wild boar, racoons, shrews and beavers, have invaded Europe to a greater extent than we thought. 外来哺乳动物，包括貂、野猪、浣熊、鼩鼱和海狸，已经在很大程度上侵入欧洲。 A new study has found that 71 mammal species hav...

12-07-04 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced July 3 that the markhor（捻角山羊） -- a majestic（庄严的） wild goat species -- is making a remarkable comeback in Pakistan due to conservation efforts. WCS-led community surveys have revealed that...