Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

Although only 5 inches from head to butt, it sports an impressive tail of about 6 inches—longer than the rest of its body ...

Zoe Jewell was working in Zimbabwe in the 1990s when a harsh reality dawned on her. The female black rhinos (Diceros bicornis ...

It can be hard to figure out the best way to feed your pet snake, especially when they refuse regular pink or fuzzy mice. Unfortunately, not all snakes are satisfied with thawed prey, and this places ...

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of ...

Giant African rats, already used to sniff out land mines, can do the same for smuggled rhino horns, elephant tusks and other common contraband, researchers report.

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

But for healthy mice, this test is a cakewalk. As Prof. Uusisaari explains, "most mice species are arboreal animals, living in trees. They have adapted to swiftly cross difficult surfaces like thin ...

Trailing behind the fluffy animal, however, is a tail longer than the rest of its body combined, more than 6 inches long, ...