You’ve most likely seen your fair share of capybara videos online, and for good reason. Capybaras are some of the chillest ...

An elusive rodent considered to be a "sensitive species," has been spotted on a West Virginia trail in the Allegheny mountains. Officials of Monongahela National Forest, a unit of the U.S. Department ...

WASHINGTON — It has the face of a rat and the tail of a skinny squirrel — and scientists say this creature discovered living in central Laos is pretty special: It's a species believed to have been ...

The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little is commonly known about it other than its connection to rodents. Virginia ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of ...

That visibility comes with scrutiny. Mammals are among the best-studied organisms on Earth - and among the most threatened.