For some mammals, the evolutionary path to gigantism after the dinosaurs’ demise wasn’t always a straight road. Species of extinct, hefty, rhinoceros-like creatures called brontotheres evolved into ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

In the wake of the mass extinction 66 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs apart from the birds, mammals underwent an evolutionary explosion. The small species that survived the ...

Last week Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History placed on exhibition a unique skeleton: that of Titanoides faberi, earliest mammal of its size known to exist on Earth. Like birds, mammals are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nepal is renowned for its tigers, rhinos and snow leopards, but the country is also home to a rich diversity of smaller, less-studied mammals.