Mammals

New Dinosaur-era mammal species "Ravjaa ishii" discovered in Mongolia's Gobi Desert

This is the first finding of Zhelestidae in Mongolia, changing the understanding of their distribution.

 New Dinosaur-era mammal species "Ravjaa ishii" discovered in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
 With Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi Colossal Biosciences revives the dire wolves.

With Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi Colossal Biosciences revives the dire wolves

 Dryolestes, a Late Jurassic relative of the Cretaceous therians.

Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago

 Jabal Yatib.

Study tracks Arabia’s lost large mammals


Discovering the leaf-eating, tree-clinging mammal of the Paleocene

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ecological niche after the dinosaurs.

 Discovering the leaf-eating, tree-clinging mammal of the Paleocene.

Colossal Biosciences creates 'woolly mice' with mammoth-like traits in de-extinction effort

Scientists edited seven genes to produce mice with woolly fur and cold adaptations similar to mammoths.

 Colossal Biosciences creates 'woolly mice' with mammoth-like traits in de-extinction effort.

778,000-year-old animal tracks found on Isla de las Palomas

Over 600 fossilized footprints of species like elephants and giraffes suggest Tarifa was a transit corridor in the Early Pleistocene.

 Tarifa seen from the Isla de Las Palomas. Most southern point of Europe, Costa de la Luz, Spain.

Mysterious 'encounters' keep happening: Norwegian sail boat severely damaged by orcas off the coast

Researchers prefer to speak of encounters and interactions rather than attacks and assume that the orcas do not act with aggressive intent.

 Orca killer whale (Orcinus orca) spotted at whale watching outside Skjervøy, Tromsø, Norway. Illustration.

Over two dozen new species discovered in Peruvian forest

Scientists discovered over two dozen new species in Peru's Amazon rainforest, including a semi-aquatic mouse and three other previously unknown mammals, during a 2022 expedition.

 A new species of semi-aquatic mouse.

Earless, hairless, apex predator with saber teeth: Oldest known ancestor of mammals found in Mallor

Researchers found a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsian fossil, the earliest known saber-toothed animal.

 Smilesaurus skull. “Most of those ancient mammal relatives looked really different from what we think of mammals looking like today.”

Cows, cats and now alpacas: Bird flu discovered for first time in 4 Idaho alpacas

The virus the alpacas were infected with was the same strain that has been spreading among dairy cattle in recent months.

 An alpaca (illustrative)

Goat infected with bird flu in the US for first time

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health noted that the risk to the public is “extremely low.”

 Baby goat (illustrative)

Get to know the Winter Butterfly

This beautiful creature has colorful rear wings, and surprisingly, its front wings are almost transparent. No other butterfly in Israel has transparent-like wings except the Apollo.

 Winter Butterfly

Ancient whale from Peru may be most massive animal ever on Earth

Whales evolved a bit more than 50 million years ago from hoofed, land-dwelling mammals as big as a medium-sized dog.

 Perucetus colossus, an early whale from Peru that lived about 38-40 million years ago, a marine mammal built somewhat like a manatee that may have exceeded the mass of the blue whale, long considered the heftiest animal on record, is seen in an undated artist's rendition.

Dinosaur vs mammal: Dramatic fossil shows pugnacious mammal attacking a dinosaur

"Here, we have good evidence for a smaller mammal preying on a larger dinosaur, which is not something we would have guessed without this fossil," Mallon added.

Fossilized skeletons dating to about 125 million years ago from China showing the entanglement of the dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis and the mammal Repenomamus robustus are seen in this 2022 handout photograph. Scale bar equals 10 cm.