They’re poison in Aotearoa but protected in Australia – and in inner-city Sydney, I’m grateful for any encounter with wildlife ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Exclude skunks from spaces such as under sheds, decks, or crawl spaces with hardware cloth. Bury it several inches below ground, says Mengak. For pesky skunks living under your house or insistent ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massive, feral, brushtail possums are frequently seen squashed on New Zealand roads. Source: Michael Dahlstrom Aussies holidaying ...

Hawaiʻi's role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished ...

The official state small mammal of Texas is rapidly spreading across North Carolina. Scientists say armadillos likely will be in all 100 counties within the next 10 to 15 years.

Bobcat (Lynx rufus) populations have been increasing since their extirpation in the 1850s. From the 1970s, the numbers have ...

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It was an ordinary laundry day for a Florida resident named Alex — until she locked eyes with someone unexpected. From behind her dryer, a pair of black eyes blinked at her from the shadows. She ...