The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Americans should hunt and cook nutrias, an invasive species found in marshy areas, to ...

Despite their name, killer whales (orcas) are actually dolphins.

The end of the Ice Age brought about significant environmental shifts. As the Earth warmed, the habitats of many large mammals changed drastically. Some species, unable to adapt to these rapid changes ...

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Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Strike action by binmen in Birmingham has seen the streets descend into a haven for rodents who have grown "as big as cats".

Mammals are distinct from birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates in three key ways. First, all mammals have fur or hair. In some species this presents as a very conspicuous, thick coat, ...

The large rodents can consume a quarter of their body weight in vegetation every day, and they can destroy an area up to ten times that size. “As an exotic invasive species in our North America ...

“These oversized, wetland-loving rodents were brought to the U.S. for the fur trade and now they’re devouring marshlands. Ok, so how can we help? Nutria gumbo. Their meat is lean ...

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended Friday ...