A captivating image of beavers thriving in the heart of a Polish city has scooped this year’s Rewilding Europe Award, a special category of the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The Madras hedgehog is one of peninsular India’s least-studied mammals. As Tamil Nadu begins a dedicated study, here is what researchers know about its habitat, roadkill, hunting and conservation.

Insect declines are among the most pressing biodiversity issues of our time, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) are emblematic insects...

The African mole-rat genus Cryptomys comprises five morphologically cryptic lineages distributed across South Africa and in Zimbabwe, historically treated as subspecies of C. hottentotus (C. h. hotte...

Sky Island Mammals of North America (SIMoNA) have unique evolutionary histories and now face impacts of rapid modern anthropogenic change. We provide an ov

COLOMBO —  As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began…

The northern tree shrew ( Tupaia belangeri ) exhibits significant morphological and geographical variations, but its evolutionary history and subspecies boundaries remain controversial. Here, we analy...

The effects of land-use composition and spatial configuration on biodiversity have been widely assessed in agroecosystems, yet whether complementary d…

The genus Hadromys comprises two poorly known rodent species: Hadromys humei from northeastern India and Hadromys yunnanensis from China. Despite being described more than a century ago, H. humei rema...

Why some lineages diversify explosively while others remain species-poor is been a central question in evolutionary biology. This global analysis on small mammals shows that climatic specialisation is...

After sequencing the DNA of the world’s only Emmons’s tree rat specimen, museum scientists have returned to the Bornean forest to learn more about the mysterious rodent

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It's 5 a.m. when we crawl out of our tents. The catbirds are calling and the night sky is fading to dawn as we prepare to head into the wilderness. We're surrounded by the towering eucalypts of southe...

Discover the people changing our planet’s future. Future For Nature supports young explorers who turn their passion for nature into real-world change.

This chapter describes current illegal uses, exploitation, and seizure data on mammalian species of Central and South America. Official seizure data was obtained directly from governmental institution...

Andean leaf-eared mice (Phyllotis vaccarum) live at the highest elevations of any mammal, and they also have the broadest elevational range, from sea level to mountain summits of >6700 meters. Highlan...

The complex topography and diverse habitats of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have made it a center of speciation and evolution for various taxa, including small mammals. Our surveys in 2008 and 2023 on th...

Rodents, particularly the family Muridae, are exceptionally species-rich, with a global distribution and significant ecological and economic roles. Despite their ubiquity, many murids remain poorly st...

Abstract. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the most widely used global system for assessing species’ extinction risk, has become a foundational sou

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Fauna & Flora is offering early-career conservationists in Greenland and Northern Norway the opportunity to apply for an award of up to US$15,000.

Museum genomics (museomics) provide powerful tools for detecting cryptic diversity in natural history collections, including previously undetected invasions. We analyzed genomic and morphological data...

Abstract Octodontidae is a moderately speciose family (seven genera and 16 species) of South American caviomorph rodents; however, from an ecological point of view, it is a d...