Of the many mouse species that inhabit North America, only a few actually find their way into homes. Here's how to recognize ...

Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They only make up 5 percent of the world’s land mass, but they are home to 20 percent of ...

It’s one small step for mice, one giant leap for mammoth-kind. Scientists endeavoring to “de-extinct” woolly mammoths through genetic modification have taken a meaningful step toward ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face ...

Woolly mice have some of the key traits of mammoths, including their thick, hairy coat. Accessibility links. ... a Dallas company trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct species.

The disease is found throughout the world in certain species of rodents, according to Dr. Bruce Farber, the chief of public health and epidemiology at Northwell Health.

Now, he and his colleagues show that unconscious mice elicit a suite of behaviors from cage mates that seem to speed recovery from anesthesia. Oxytocin neurons, which underlie helping behaviors in ...