Over the past 100,000 years, Australia and New Guinea's large animal communities have been disrupted by extinctions and ...

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Three stories above the Field Museum's exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum's mammal ...

Costa Rica is home to 117 bat species—nearly 8% of the world’s total! From leaf-tent builders to fish catchers and even ...

Zebrafish can regrow hearing cells we can't, and scientists have just found two genes that may explain how. This discovery ...

Scientists studying ability of mice to regenerate ear damage say therapies based on retinoic acid might work across various tissue types.

Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

Pepper’s last contribution to science was in May 2021, when he brought home a common cotton mouse carrying a type of ...

Menita Prasad knows that turtles don’t rate the same kind of attention from the public as a “cute, fluffy mammal.” The ...

One of the most infamous moments in a career full of infamous moments, we're taking a look back at Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a live bat in 1982 ...

Orcas have long been revered for their intelligence, adaptability, and group-hunting strategies. But one scientific review ...