When winter winds chill us to the bone, we bundle up in sweaters, down vests and fleece parkas. Wild animals, on the other ...

Unlike most mammals, which only have one layer of fur, reindeer have two: a dense underfur beneath a blanket of hollow guard hairs. Reindeer can have up to 2,000 hairs packed into a single square ...

The back is dark brown to black with yellowish guard hairs, the sides are yellowish orange with scattered ... of both woodland and meadow jumping mice. Unlike many small mammals, the woodland jumping ...

"Amphibious rodents are almost mythical to mammal experts," Larsen said, according to Clarín. Another remarkable find was a spiny mouse with stiff guard hairs that function similarly to hedgehog ...