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

A new species of mouse with a remarkably long tail, dubbed Otavalo’s Andean mouse, has been discovered near a dormant volcano ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

US researchers have found an astonishingly simple brain circuit of just three types of neurons controls chewing motions in ...

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.

Scientists discovered a mechanoreceptor that triggers the distinctive shake-off behavior observed in mice when they become ...

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 ...

In the mountains north of Quito, Ecuador, a small new species is followed by a “very long tail,” researchers said. Florian Delée via Unsplash High in the Andes of northern Ecuador, cities sit ...

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 ...