Mammals

The woman walked nearly two miles after being bitten in order to get to her car, before driving herself to a hospital.

The whales are currently acclimatizing in a care facility at a first-of-its kind sea sanctuary before their eventual release.

The skeleton is the most complete of a fossil mammal from the Mesozoic era in the regions that once formed the supercontinent Gondwana.

A vulnerable population of wolves living on Prince of Wales Island lost 97 percent of the population during the 2019-2020 trapping season.

"People were routinely exposed to bats through guano harvesting, religious practices, and ecotourism," the authors wrote in the study.

These long-term cooperative relationships between unrelated bats appear to be similar in form and function to human friendships.

The whales were observed in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, located around 130 miles east-southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The yellow-footed antechinus is a marsupial has a rare and unusual mating behavior known as "male semelparity."

"It just seems to me that every bat in Australia is now in Ingham," Raymon Jayo, mayor of Hinchinbrook, said.

For centuries, ambergris has been highly prized for its unique for its use a perfume ingredient.

The footprints are dated to a time when a major mass extinction event devastated life on Earth.

"I am honored to welcome our canine friends back to Colorado after their long absence," Colorado Governor Jared Polis said.

The duck-billed mammal is currently listed as Near-Threatened on the IUCN Red List.

"We show that interactions between meerkat groups are never tolerant," researcher Mark Dyble said.

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, there are between around 4,000 and 6,600 snow leopards left in the wild across 12 countries in Central Asia.

Plant extinctions endanger other organisms, ecosystems and the ability of humans to survive on our planet.

Researchers predict that the average total body mass of mammals will drop by 25 percent over the next century.

A harness taken from the beluga whale bore the words "Equipment of St. Petersburg."

Elephant skin is covered in an intricate network of minuscule crevices that retain water and mud, providing a number of benefits.

Some modern mammals have a bone inside their penis, called the baculum.

Tree shrews are a small mammal species native to southeast Asia.

The findings could help to shine a light on the evolutionary history of mammals.

"You haven't lived until you've put your arms around a mammoth femur trying to measure it," Smith said.

Solenodon has been described as a "living fossil" because the animal has remained virtually unchanged throughout its 76-million-year history.

Duckbills, beaver-tails...and antibacterial milk?

You can thank the dinosaur extinction for our ability to brunch.

The 4-year-old Tonkean macaque exhibited prolonged attachment to the infant's desiccated corpse before starting to chew its remains.

The findings could potentially shed light on the behavior of other animals where female aggression is high.

The winter cold aggravates the giant mammals' arthritis.

But they have not been found in humans.