Those noses help them detect the scent of blooming flowers, but it’s their impressive tongues that make lesser long-nosed bats such valuable pollinators: Measuring about three inches ...

Flagstaff, Ariz. — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has ...

The long-tailed weasel is carnivorous and its diet is similar to the ermine’s, but includes a greater portion of larger prey which is taken primarily by males. Small rodents such as mice and voles are ...

The large hind limbs, bright colors, and long, tapered, white-tipped tail identify the woodland ... Where red-backed voles are abundant, woodland jumping mice are usually absent. Forest edges adjacent ...

By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human ... When the scientists put the human version of NOVA1 into mice, the animals made more complex sounds. Erich Jarvis, a ...

They genetically modified the DNA of mice to give them mammoth-like traits ... It means that no animal could go truly extinct as long as we can obtain its DNA. However, mammoths were heavily ...

I was unsure I would ever study star-nosed moles again. But, one piece of the puzzle was left unanswered, and one that I long wondered about; how is the mole’s nose able to maintain the ...

They genetically modified the DNA of mice to give them mammoth-like traits ... It means that no animal could truly go extinct as long as we can obtain its DNA. However, mammoths were heavily ...