Recent discoveries have shown that brightly colored crests and eye-catching patterns adorned many dinosaurs. Meanwhile, our earliest mammalian ancestors survived these flamboyant predators by being as ...

Biofluorescence is a property that allows some animals to glow under UV light, but rarely is it seen in mammals. New research reveals that springhares, which are tiny rodents that are native to Africa ...

CHICAGO--A strikingly unusual animal was recently discovered in the cloud-forests of Peru. The large rodent is about the size of a squirrel and looks a bit like one, except its closest relatives are ...