Three-dimensional computer models of fossils from a tiny mouse-size creature that lived about 210 million years ago in what is now Greenland clear up a long-standing mammal mystery. The high-tech ...

New research has dramatically expanded the known roster of mammals on Earth. A new review published in the Journal of ...

A yellow-rumped mouse is spotted at the top of a 22,000-foot volcano in the Andes. "This astonishing elevation shows to what extremes life is capable of." Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

The fossil of a mouse-sized mammal dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been unearthed in Chile. The minute creature is the smallest mammal ever found in this part of South America. Scientists ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a new 69 million-year-old mammal species in the North Slope of Alaska. They call the Cretaceous creature Unnuakomys hutchisoni, a combination of local indigenous ...

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Imagine the family reunion: In one corner, a three-ton elephant, in the other, a mouse-like mammal weighing in at about one ounce. The small creature, which was discovered in Namibia, looks like a ...

It's a "man bites dog" story, except in this case, you could call it "mammal eats dinosaur." Generations of schoolchildren have grown up learning that hundreds of millions of years ago, our tiny ...

Precise control of the tongue is often vital in life, from the way frogs capture flies to human speech (SN: 1/31/17). But much remains unknown about how the brain controls the tongue, given how its ...

An illustration of Haramiyavia, the earliest known proto-mammal, whose identity is based on a reconstruction of its 210-million-year-old fossil jaw (superimposed on bottom illustration).