Not much hair, just a few bristles, but it’s still there. Some mammals are small and live near you. Like dogs and cats who have soft hair or fur. And hamsters, hedgehogs and rats and even bats.

"It didn't have any fur, and it wouldn't have had dog-like ears." Just like mammals today, this this 1 meter (3 foot) long gorgonopsian had jaw-muscle attachment holes on the sides of their skull.

When hairy mammals feel something on their back, they’ll pull out the “wet dog shakes”. If you’ve ever been within the splash zone of a dog just getting out of the pool, you’ll likely ...

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

The wild dog is one of the world’s most endangered mammals. The largest populations remain in southern Africa and the southern part of East Africa (especially Tanzania and northern Mozambique). Wild ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

A VEHICLE has been seized and “positive lines of enquiries” are being followed after two men were spotted “using dogs to hunt wild mammals”. Police officers from East Lothian Community Action Team ...