Mammals News

Scientists are showing us what other mammals look like in the womb, thanks to revolutionary four-dimensional scanning technology. Here are the top five photos of animals in their mothers' wombs.

Oxford - A recent study by Oxford University provides ammunition to those on the side of canines in the discussions over whether dogs or cats are the smartest.

Some animals which had been believed to be extinct for many years have been sighted in the wild, and it is hoped that more of these species are waiting to be rediscovered.

A scarred, 800kg runaway hippo named Zorro now is "happy and relaxed" at his new home in the municipal sewage works near Cape Town. The young male needed to beat a hasty retreat from the jaws of his beachmaster-dad Brutus at a nearby nature reserve.

Philippine fishermen joined hands in guiding about 100 Dolphins that were stranded in the shallow waters of the the Philippines to the deep waters in oder to save their lives.

Paul Ehrlich is the co-author of an analysis of the 408 new mammalian species discovered since 1993, not all the news is good.

The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever.

Habitat destruction and alien species invasion are to blame.

"The discovery of tiny fossilised bones of a mouselike creature in the Central Otago region is the first hard evidence that New Zealand once had its own indigenous land mammals. The finding could prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks."

According to a new Dutch study, wobbles or variations in Earth's orbit can be linked to the extinction of rodents and mammals.