The California Academy of Sciences’ exhibit opening Saturday has an intriguing title: “Extreme Mammals.” Upon reading the show’s lengthy subtitle, it will become clear that it’s not about teenagers ...

Despite its name, the flying lemur isn’t a lemur and it doesn’t truly fly — it glides. These mysterious mammals, also called colugos, live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia and use a huge skin ...

Small mammals that lived around 125 million years ago may have preyed on dinosaurs three times their size, a strange fossil unearthed in China suggests. Now, Jordan Mallon at the Canadian Museum of ...

An incredible fossil depicts an ancient mammal locked in a battle to the death with a dinosaur — a snapshot of the prehistoric past so incredible that researchers carried out additional studies to ...