"We didn't know they were up there." Wildlife experts thrilled to discover rare species thriving in unexpected location: ...

For the first time, scientists documented concerted carnivory by California ground squirrels. But why were there so many ...

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This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

The nose of this small rodent is yellowish orange, and thus another common name, the yellow-nosed vole. The rest of the body is yellowish to grayish brown above and silvery gray below. The ears ...

How do a fully sequenced genome, microbiomics, and intensive population genetics help save a critically endangered mammal? Provided by Professor Janet Foley of UC Davis Veterinary Medicine. There are ...

Then, in the summer of 2024, her students spotted something she never expected: one of the squirrels chased, killed and ate a vole, a small rodent common across the western coast of North America.

Usually found across riverbanks in Wales, water voles have now taken up habitat in the valleys, which could help prevent their local extinction. Robert Parry, chief executive of the Initiative for ...