As World Pangolin Day approaches, the planet’s most trafficked mammal stands as a stark symbol of a booming illegal trade ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

With up to 200,000 taken from the wild each year, the pangolin's evolutionary superpowers have made it both ...

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. The surprising story of mammal evolution begins ...

It's not uncommon for scientists to uncover new fossils from the ages of dinosaurs, but every now and then, a discovery reveals much rarer information. Scientists unearthed the fossil of the small and ...

This ‘NOVA’ presentation focuses on therapsids, lizard-like creatures with distinctly mammalian characteristics that lived on Earth more than 200 million years ago.

The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new ...

A remarkably well-preserved fossil discovered in China suggests that millions of years ago, some mammals actively hunted dinosaurs that were several times their size. The 125-million-year-old bones, ...