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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 A. 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

Two-foot-long cloud rat rediscovered after missing for forty years in the Philippines

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2012

Cute baby animal photos of the day: twin Malagasy giant jumping rats born at London Zoo

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2012

Giant rat plays big ecological role in dispersing seeds

Jeremy Hance 16 Nov 2011

Cute animal picture of the day: baby mara, the giant rabbit that wasn’t

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2011

Cameratraps take global snapshot of declining tropical mammals

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2011

Photo: New mouse species discovered in Brazil

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2011

7 new mice species discovered in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2011

Red rodent shows up at Colombian nature lodge after 113 years on the lam

Jeremy Hance 18 May 2011

New population discovered of the America’s mini snow leopard: the Andean cat

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2011

Updating the top 100 weirdest and most imperiled mammals

Jeremy Hance 24 Jan 2011

Australian mammals in steady decline even in large National Park

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2010

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