A newly discovered fossil of a four-legged whale in Peru sheds new light on the evolution of whales and their journey across ...

They remain one of the most diverse and prolific groups of animals on the planet. It can be hard to keep track of which animals are rodents; it can also be difficult to track which animals fall under ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) situation in Peruvian poultry has been classified as resolved, according to a ...

KIGALI, Rwanda ― Following the recent rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) at ...

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Adult California sea lion females have tan fur, while males have dark brown fur. Females grow to a maximum length of 6.5 feet (2 m) and weigh 242.5 pounds (110 kg) on average. Males are three to four ...

In 1990, he ran for president of Peru, saying he wanted to save his country from economic chaos and a Marxist insurgency. He lost in the run-off to Alberto Fujimori, a then-unknown agronomist and ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans and other mammals might sound like something out of sci-fi movie. Yet new findings indicate that the ...

In the final era of the Cretaceous, giant reptiles were not the only ones navigating a changing planet. Tiny fossils suggest that many small mammals embraced ground-based living long before the ...

It is just not being a healthy, vibrant whale," said Giancarlo Rulli with the Marine Mammal Center. RELATED: More dead whales wash up in San Francisco Bay Fire crews spent hours spraying it down ...

In this new study, WU's team closely examined how brain cells in the hypothalamus are organized during development, traced how different types of cells emerge from neural progenitors as the brain ...

Marine Mammal Center officials announced the sad outcome at around 4:40 p.m. "Unfortunately, today the whale became trapped and was unable to be freed from the mudflat. Because this animal was ...