Brian Callahan took this photo in his garden in the Valley of a California vole (Microtus californicus) that made an ...

Source: Guoliang Li, used with permission. When it comes to the battle between tiny rodents known as Brandt’s voles and carnivorous birds called shrikes, the birds may seem to have all the advantages.

A tiny vole in the Mojave Desert has been brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to conservation efforts. The fluffy creature is known as the Amargosa vole, and the small rodents are so ...

A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel. He baited a few live traps with peanut butter ...

The woodland vole shows many adaptations for its burrowing lifestyle. The fur is short, soft, and silky, almost mole-like in texture. The front feet and claws are larger than those of its relatives.

On Jan. 7, we woke to almost a foot of snow and the first good dump of the white stuff of the new year. My week kept me busy with no time to walk around our property in the snow until Jan. 14. By then ...

Ground squirrels and voles take tiny bites from soybean fields. The slow bleed over successive seasons is often considered part of the cost of farming, particularly in no-till ground. But, more ...

A tiny rodent trims tall grasses so it can watch the skies for flying predators, new research shows. Brandt’s voles live in grassland in Inner Mongolia, China, where they are hunted by birds called ...

Rodents are fascinating animals and the more they are studied the more we learn about their concern for others in distress. For example, a study published in 2011 conducted by Inbal Ben-Ami, Jean ...