Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...

Australia can lay claim to two new species of native rodent thanks to a new study. The aptly named delicate mouse was previously thought to be a single species spanning a massive stretch of the ...

A mouse running across a garden wall or hiding behind old cardboard boxes may seem like a routine household problem. But in ...

Basic ecology uses simple diagrams to illustrate how biomass is distributed in ecosystems. These “ecological pyramids” lump all primary producers (plants) at the base of the pyramid. The second level ...

The latest hantavirus infections made the disease hit the headlines all over the globe. In particular, health authorities ...

Organisms have been evolving to adapt to changing environmental conditions ever since life on Earth began. Those species that ...

Two new species of delicate mice — Australia’s smallest rodents — were recently discovered, according to a new study. Photo from Joey Csunyo, UnSplash Two species of tiny rodents have lived undetected ...

In the animal kingdom, there are far more mammals that are polyamorous than are monogamous. In fact, just three to five percent of mammals are monogamous, and researchers have long wondered what ...

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, ...