Bring out the bear spray! Black bears, grizzlies or polar bears. Any of these big mammals could attack if you provoked them or got a little too close to their territory.

Josh Cunningham and 39 other East Tennessee young professionals were honored in Knoxville as they joined Knox News' 40 Under ...

This video explores one of the most unusual biological traits found in any mammal. Wombats produce cube-shaped waste, a phenomenon that puzzled scientists for years. Research eventually revealed that ...

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

You’d think that porcupines climbing trees would be visible and therefore well-studied. Roughly the size of housecats with ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

Parasitic diseases are common in wild animals kept in captivity, and the research of these parasites is a tool used in wildlife management actions. Once the method most used in the practice of ...

A fork of the ScreenForBio metabarcoding pipeline originally published in: Axtner, J., Crampton-Platt, A., Hoerig, L.A., Xu, C.C.Y., Yu, D.W., Wilting, A. (2019), An ...

More than a dozen mammal species shimmer and glint purple and green, like precious opals. Their fur is iridescent, meaning its colour appears to change depending on the animal’s orientation relative ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it was a messy saga full of unexpected detours. Using new bone-mapping tech, ...

1 School of Information Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China 2 Shandong Key Laboratory of Deep Sea Equipment Intelligent Networking, Qingdao, Shandong, ...