More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

As the founder of DNV Save Animals, a rescue group in Bosnia, Vera Andric-Osmic is always on the lookout for pets who need ...

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The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal by mass, weighing about 20 times less than an adult mouse. It has a body length of 35-48 mm ...

Sometimes, it is an enigma: in the 2000s a “small caged mammal” appeared, unexpectedly, in the ONS’s calculations. The basket itself, in its modern form, was born in 1947. The political mood ...

The Pygmy Shrew has the distinction of being Ireland’s smallest mammal. It differs from mice in that it is tiny, has a long snout, a hairy rather than a naked tail, and red-tipped teeth.

Several animal care officials are warning small animal pet owners about birds of prey. Officials say this is the time of year ...

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 ...

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