Our lands are laden with mammals of all shapes and sizes, from the smallest shrews and moles to ginormous hippos and elephants. Live Science provides you with all the biggest land mammal research, with our expert team of writers and editors bringing the latest news, features and articles about land mammals, such as cannibal monkeys, mini kangaroos and jaguar bromances.
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How related are dire wolves and gray wolves? The answer might surprise you.
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Chimps filmed sharing alcoholic food for first time
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Why do cats bring home dead animals?
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Plains viscacha: A rodent that builds vast underground cities and ovulates more than any other mammal
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Watch bison flee as famous Yellowstone wolf pack descends
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Primates: Facts about the group that includes humans, apes, monkeys and other close relatives
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Zoo elephants form protective ring around young during California earthquake
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Vampire bats have a really strange way of getting energy, scientists discover after putting them on treadmills
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Hammer-headed bat: The African megabat that looks like a gargoyle and holds honking pageants
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Honduran white bats: The fluffy little bats that roost together in leaf tents
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Bats with weirdly giant penis have sex for up to 12 hours in a way never seen in mammals before
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52 million-year-old bat skeleton is the oldest ever found and belongs to a never-before-seen species
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Scientists unlocked the secrets to bats' heavy metal growls
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Bats tell predators to 'buzz off' — literally
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Vampire bats' 'missing' genes may help them survive on all-blood diet
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Bats are superheroes of the night. Their superpowers could help us protect them.
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Bears: Facts about the furry omnivores that live in many parts of the world
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Watch polar bear cubs emerge from their winter den for 1st time on Svalbard
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Polar bears are getting horrific injuries and huge 'ice balls' on their paws because of climate change, researchers say
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Bleak photo of polar bear with plastic in its jaws in the remote Arctic shows pollution's 'pervasive grip'
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Sun bear: The little carnivores that look so similar to humans they've been mistaken for people wearing costumes
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Polar bear sleeping on tiny iceberg drifting in Arctic sea captured in heartbreaking photo
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Bigfoot? Sasquatch? Nope, it's probably just a black bear — unless you live in Florida
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Extinct 'hypercarnivorous' California grizzly bears were actually mostly vegetarian before Europeans showed up
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'This is unlikely to be an isolated event': 1st polar bear death from bird flu spells trouble for species
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Why do cats bring home dead animals?
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The history of cat domestication
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Cats: Facts about our feline friends
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Why do cats lick plastic bags?
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4 snow leopards spotted together on remote Pakistan mountain in rare footage
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Why do cats make a weird face after smelling something?
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Why do cats have 'toe beans'?
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Giant Florida panther captured by wildlife officials is heaviest on record
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How do cats get their spots?
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Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests
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Smarter dogs have smaller brains, surprising study reveals
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We finally know why dogs shake when they're wet
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Why do dogs' paws smell like Fritos?
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Dogs can smell their humans' stress, and it makes them sad
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Why do dogs look like their owners?
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'Puppy eyes' didn't evolve just for humans, study of wild dogs finds
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Why do dogs sniff each other's butts?
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Genetic quirk in 25% of Labrador retrievers can lead to overeating, obesity
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Zoo elephants form protective ring around young during California earthquake
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Do 'elephant graveyards' really exist?
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Elephants: Facts about Earth's largest living land animals
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Elephants say 'hello' to friends by flapping their ears and making little rumbly noises
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'Most of Gorongosa's large animals had died': How an African paradise for nature recovered from the ravages of war
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'They are very well aware of their agency': Elephant calf burial ritual discovered in India
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Watch a rare pink albino elephant baby playing by a waterhole in adorable footage
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Scientists may have finally figured out how elephants got their incredible trunks
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'It's really quite remarkable': An interview with elephant expert Ross MacPhee about the giant pachyderms
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Severely injured giraffe with 'very twisted' zigzag neck spotted in South Africa
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'World's rarest' giraffe born without spots at Tennessee zoo
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Endangered Masai giraffes may be inbreeding themselves to extinction
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Giraffe sex is even weirder than we thought, and it involves pee
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Short-necked giraffe relative discovered in China. It used its helmet head to bash rivals.
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Mom & baby giraffe trapped on a sinking island rescued in months-long operation
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Adorable dwarf giraffes spotted for the first time
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Lightning killed 2 giraffes in South Africa: Were they doomed by their height?
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Two of the last white giraffes on Earth were slaughtered by poachers
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'Devil monkeys' are attacking people in Thailand, Japan and India. Here's why.
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Meet 'Retro': The 1st ever cloned rhesus monkey to survive more than a day
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Human elbows and shoulders evolved as 'brakes' for climbing ape ancestors
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Male monkeys on tiny island have way more sex with each other than females, scientists discover
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Zoo monkey eats her baby's corpse after carrying it around for days
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Primates have been masturbating for at least 40 million years
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Three chimps shot dead and four remain on the loose after mysterious zoo escape
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Chimps are naturally violent, study suggests
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Wild chimps and gorillas can form social bonds that last for decades
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Qinling panda: The shrunken pandas that diverged 300,000 years ago and sometimes come out brown
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World's oldest male panda dies at 35 after weeks of 'deteriorating health'
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Giant pandas have winter poop parties, rolling around in horse manure
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1st-ever footage of giant pandas mating in the wild is not 'cute and cuddly'
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Some Pandas Use Their Head to Climb. Others Just ... Can't. And It's So Unbearably Cute.
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Giant Panda Babies Are Born 'Undercooked' and No One Knows Why
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Albino Panda Spotted in the Wild for the First Time
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Farewell, Basi: World's Oldest Captive Panda Dies at 37
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Why Are Pandas Black and White?
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1st-ever white rhino IVF sparks hope that 'doomed species' could still be saved, despite there being no males left
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Embryos of Northern white rhino created. Will they save nearly extinct creature?
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Only two northern white rhinos remain. And they're both female.
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A pup preserved in permafrost ate one of the last woolly rhinos on Earth
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Malaysia Says Goodbye to Iman, Its last Sumatran Rhino
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Lab-Made Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos After Last Male Dies
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Extinction Looms As Last Male Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia Dies
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Why 8 Endangered Rhinos Died in Mission to Save Them
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Facts About Rhinos
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