If you think that rodents are typically tiny in size and that beavers are gigantic when compared to other members of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A new Field Museum study reveals that Chicago's chipmunks have grown larger with shorter teeth due to processed human food, ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...

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

While the Tooth Fairy herself may be surprisingly modern, the bits of folklore that went into her creation are hundreds of years old.

In aggregate, Team Vole believes, a high vole year could make the tundra breathe out carbon. Then the population crashes. No longer pruned by rodent teeth, plants regrow on soils still enriched ...

Voles, a small rodent, ... "Like all rodents, they have to chew on things to wear down their teeth, to keep their teeth from outgrowing them," Huntsinger said.

First, the predators ripped off the rodents’ heads. Then they dug their teeth into their prey’s torsos, feasting on meat, organs and cartilage. The predators? Squirrels, the populous mammals ...