The Christmas Island shrew, the only shrew species native to Australia, has been officially declared extinct. This small ...

According to professor John Woinarski, the species' disappearance means Australia has lost 39 land mammal species since 1788, ...

There is conclusive evidence that Crocidura trichura populations declined dramatically since 1900. In fact, some suspected it ...

An investigation of borealpox cases in Alaska determined that the virus is likely being spread from small mammals like voles ...

Colorado's wildlife begins to adapt to the coming frigid weather before winter sets in. Learn what Colorado's wildlife does ...

Deep underwater and high in the night sky, creatures use sound to see what eyes cannot. Through evolutionary biology and acoustic science, this episode reveals how echolocation emerged in bats, whales ...

With clocks falling back an hour, owls are out and about earlier than normal, and that typically signals an increase in owl ...

Sibuyan Island—known as the “Galapagos of Asia”—teems with life beneath Mt. Guiting-Guiting’s cloud-covered peaks. Locals and ...

On a speck of land in the Indian Ocean, one of the world's most ambitious wars is being waged against feral cats. But not ...

Colossal CEO Ben Lamm inside the company’s biobank, which is helping safeguard rare animals from the same fate as the ...

Leedsichthys also sported 40,000 needle-like teeth. Yet for its prodigious size and toothiness, it was a gentle giant, like ...