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Photos: Top 20 new species of 2017

Mike Gaworecki 28 Dec 2017

Giant tree-dwelling rat discovered in the Solomon Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2017

From tarsiers to cloud rats, scientist strives to save Philippine species

Jacqueline Hernandez 15 Aug 2017

Hunting, not deforestation, biggest threat to Southeast Asian biodiversity: Study

Mike Gaworecki 6 Oct 2016

In search of a lost species: the Santa Marta Toro

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Aug 2016

Luzon Island in the Philippines is an endemic mammalian hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jul 2016

Scientists declare first mammal extinction due to climate change

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jun 2016

New rat species find sheds light on Philippine mammalian diversity

Kolawole Talabi 20 Nov 2015

Hog-nosed rat discovered in Sulawesi is so unique it’s been placed in its own genus

Mike Gaworecki 8 Oct 2015
Hyorhinomys stuempkei. Courtesy of Museum Victoria

Giant carnivorous rat with long pubic hair discovered in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2015

Bison-sized rodent may have used teeth like elephant tusks

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2015

Scientists reintroduce agoutis in rainforest in city of 12 million

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2014

Scientists uncover six potentially new species in Peru, including bizarre aquatic mammal (photos)

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Scientists discover carnivorous water rat in Indonesia, good example of convergent evolution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Jun 2014

Loss of wildlife and deforestation can increase human disease

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2014

Chile turns to owls to combat fatal disease

Franziska Green 1 Apr 2014

Local knowledge sheds light on some of the world’s strangest mammals

Dominic Rowland 7 Mar 2014

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Frank Izaguirre 21 Jan 2014

For agoutis, the night is fraught with peril

Jordanna Dulaney 15 Jan 2014

Big data shows tropical mammals on the decline

Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2013

New mountain porcupine discovered in Brazil (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2013

New prioritization for Brazil’s threatened mammals pushes little known primates and rodents to the top

Natalie Millar 30 Sep 2013

Conservationists work to give South Georgia back to the birds

Karl Mathiesen 18 Jul 2013

Scientists discover new giant mole rat in Africa (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2013

New species tree-dwelling porcupine discovered in critically threatened Brazilian habitat

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2013

Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia’s highlands

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

Photos: new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2012

Rodents have lowest diversity in primary forests in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Bizarre new rodent discovered in Indonesia has only 2 teeth

Jeremy Hance 22 Aug 2012

Rodent robbers fill role of mega mammals, help spread tropical trees

Tyler Lark 7 Aug 2012

Camera traps discover new populations of nearly extinct chinchillas

Michael Rudolph 25 Jul 2012

New mammal discovered in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2012

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