When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a small and rare group of mammals that do things differently– they lay eggs!

Are they birds, or are they flying mammals? To be classed as a mammal, an animal must be a vertebrate, which means they have a backbone and a cranium. Mammals must also give birth to live young, ...

Nadia Gould, Team Leader of Mammals for Paignton Zoo, commented: "What makes this birth particularly remarkable is the ...

Imagine a world where furry mammals scuttle under the feet of gigantic dinosaurs, not yet destined to rule the Earth. It’s a ...

For over 65 years now, the lives of three generations of a family — Hari Krishna, his father Krishna Lal Shrestha (who passed ...

Bats are mammals because they are vertebrates, they have fur, they are warm-blooded, they breathe with their lungs, and they give birth to live babies that they nurse with milk. Bats’ forelegs and ...

Mammals give birth to babies, reptiles pop out eggs, right? An ancient fossil unearthed in China suggests the latter wasn't always true. Paleontologists have found a 245-million-year-old fossil of ...

But they're also pretty unusual on the inside: Female kangaroos have two vaginas — or three, if they've given birth. Why could that be? The most likely explanation is that it's an adaptation to ...

Wild animals that have acquired adaptions to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme conditions may provide answers to some of the most pressing problems in the field of ...

A gray whale washed up along the beach in Alameda on Monday. It's the fifth whale to die in the San Francisco Bay in less ...

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota announced that it welcomed a two-toed sloth on Wednesday, much to the surprise and delight of the guests who got to witness the rare moment ...

As it turns out, it’s easy to miss when a sloth is expecting. Something similar happened at the Hattiesburg Zoo in 2018 when ...