As Pizza Rat proved, some creatures can adapt to just about anything, even the concrete jungle. And it isn’t just New York ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

From bears to rodents, learn to ID scat by size, shape, and content to determine which animal has been in your area and what ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

California ground squirrels are as commonplace as the seeds, acorns, and grains they’re often seen nibbling. Yet, scientists ...

Voles are rodents that are closer in size and shape to hamsters than they are to the similarly sounding moles. These rodents are a common sight throughout North America, but some people ascribe a mole ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

By studying chipmunk and vole specimens hidden away in the backroom drawers of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, a research team—lead by assistant curator of mammals Anderson Feijó ...

Chicago rodents have evolved with city life. Museum skulls reveal how urbanization is quietly reshaping wildlife.

The findings of a new study "clearly show that interfering with the environment has a detectable effect on wildlife," a ...