The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

NOAA officials are looking for a suspect seen using a black 8-inch knife to remove the deceased sea lion's head.

Someone cut off the head of a sea lion in Northern California and rode off with it in a bag. Authorities are now offering $20 ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

There was, briefly, a risk that FT Alphaville’s recent Art of the Chart show would occur without any small caged mammal representation. But the arc of the mammalian universe bends towards content, and ...

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon ...

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year ...

The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Every March, college basketball fans print out brackets and try ...

After a Doran Regional Park staff member discovered a beheaded sea lion, authorities are now investigating the incident.

A $20,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the suspect who decapitated a sea lion on a California beach.

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...