Invasive mice are eating the island’s 29 avian species alive, but the NGO Mouse-Free Marion has a plan to eradicate them by using helicopters to drop 600 tons of pesticides across the entire ...

In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

You no doubt understand that staples hold papers together. Well, metaphorically speaking, mice are the staples that hold ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance hopes Pat's story will shine a light on an overlooked endangered species. The wild mice live within a couple miles of the Pacific Ocean, but habitat loss and ...

For instance, over a decade ago, scientists discovered that the preference for building complex versus small, simple burrows in two Peromyscus species was partly genetically determined and linked to ...

Hunting using bait is already illegal for hunting bears, deer, moose and other wildlife, and it's time that prohibition extends to other hunted species.

Understanding the importance of wild animal species is both fascinating and sobering. The 2024 Living Planet Report revealed a 73% average decline in wild vertebrate species since 1970 - Nature’s ...

Biologists in Mozambique released a group of wild cheetahs in a "massive" protected area in the Zambeze Delta in August as part of a reintroduction project they believe is "crucial" to conserve ...

Vogt set up his study using a garden design, placing wild-derived and C57 mice in large outdoor enclosures. He was the first to examine the social and behavioral patterns of C57 mice in these ...

Today some wild-horse-advocacy groups think of wild horses as a reintroduced native species; other groups cast them, more negatively, as feral animals, domesticates that escaped their bonds.