It’s no wonder why the tiny California mammal appears so stunned — the ... And after several harrowing nights of carefully monitoring the traps they set, the team succeeded.

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

Its urn-shaped traps grow up to 41 centimetres tall with a pitcher capable of holding 3.5 litres of water. Scientists have observed vertebrates and small mammals in their digestive fluid. Native to ...

Researchers placed camera traps throughout ... were able to observe how mammal communities had changed over six different habitat types located within a relatively small geographic area.

“This inspired us to look beyond the species level and investigate the ground-dwelling mammal and bird community ... setting up 145 camera traps between 2018 and 2022 across a range of habitats ...