For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

Coconis, right, with a volunteer conducts biological surveys of a restored city park in Salt Lake City, Utah (Mark Johnston photo) The Santa Barbara ...

New Curator of Mammalogy Ally Coconis, Ph.D., with kangaroo rat specimens in the SBMNH collections. Photo by SBMNH Coconis (right) with a NHMU volunteer, ...

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History’s Mammal Hall is the subject of a short film that explores the questions that come from visiting museums. “MAMMAL HALL” is created by Stephanie Miracle ...

Behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum, a team of dedicated curators look after more than 80 million specimens and objects covering the history of life on Earth. In the first of a new series, ...

Take a dive into the museum’s marine mammal collection and learn how a rare North American whale is racing against extinction Emma Saaty This plate of baleen came from the critically endangered Rice’s ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — It's a low-key museum that doesn't get a lot of public attention. It's possible you may never have heard of it. But the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of ...

A Museums of Western Colorado volunteer’s discovery in 2018 of a jawbone fragment in a block of sandstone previously collected outside Rangely has contributed to scientists discovering a previously ...

It's a discovery 65 million years in the making. Researchers at Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species in Corral Bluffs east of Colorado Springs. What makes the discovery ...

Imagine seeing a bat the size of a bumblebee or a dinosaur-eating mammal or an animal that has a sixth sense to detect electrical current. How about getting up close to the largest land mammal that ...

Albert Ervin, head of member services at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, talks with Elizabeth Gardner about extreme mammals on display at the museum. Albert Ervin, head of member ...

On Saturday, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is having a "Meet the Mammals" family event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Among the highlights: two rarely displayed whale skulls, each weighing ...