New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

So far, Alabama is the only place it's been discovered, although short-tailed shrews can be found across North America. However, according to the Economic Times, virologists warn that it's only a ...

Indeed, the earliest mammal we are currently aware of is the Brasilodon quadrangularis – a diminutive critter described as ...

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they also have a unique call that sounds like a person wailing. The sound of this call earned them the Spanish name guácharo which means one who complains. Certain species of shrews are the first ...

Small mammals including hedgehogs, shrews and field mice can become entangled in plastic waste, trapped in containers, or ingest harmful materials, leading to injury, starvation, or death.

Its very name is a relic: that word “basket” sounding like something that might have ... Sometimes, it is an enigma: in the 2000s a “small caged mammal” appeared, unexpectedly, in the ...

A short-tailed shrew! What is a shrew doing inside the house ... wicked or malignant or even mammal-like. Amazing how words evolve … all this from a small, furry creature. In any case, the Oxford ...