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Background Though skeletal adaptations for locomotion in mammals are well documented, possible limb adaptations in terms of muscle architecture have received far less study. Examining mustelid mammals...

September 2026 has been a pretty dispiriting month for American paleontologists. In early September, Drexel University gave a surprise annou...

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Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus Leopardus, including genomes obtained from museum collections, they describe a new species and a new subspecies and elucidate tiger cat evolutionary history.

In Utah, Trump resurfaced a decades-long dispute over how to protect some of the country’s crown jewels.

An ETSU-led study shows how a fossil discovered decades ago helped rewrite the history of an extinct mammal that once inhabited coastlines across the Pacific.

Fin whales, the primary target of Iceland’s whaling industry, are classified ⁠by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as vulnerable.

A natural history museum lets residents take home 1,400 specimens, from bobcats and beetles to snakes in jars

The eared seals (family Otariidae) are divided into fur seals and sea lions, despite a lack of cladistic support for these groups. The division is primarily based on hair morphology, and it is unknow...

We found that many squamates exhibit moderate tolerance of human modification, with wider ranging, larger bodied, faster reproducing species showing the highest tolerance. Intolerance to modification...

Three fossil physeteroids have been recovered from the Lower to Middle Miocene of Japan. Here, we describe and diagnose these specimens as a new species of the genus Miophyseter, M. gunmaensis, sp....

Last month, the announcement of a new-to-science monkey species from the Congolese rain forest made a bit of a splash. It’s Colobus congoensis, formally, and less formally and based on a local name…

If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar woo...