Scientists recently found an example of evolution in real time, tucked away in the collection drawers of the Field Museum in ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

California ground squirrels are as commonplace as the seeds, acorns, and grains they’re often seen nibbling. Yet, scientists ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

Voles are rodents that are closer in size and shape to hamsters than they are to the similarly sounding moles. These rodents ...

Researchers working in Contra Costa County witnessed 74 interactions between squirrels and voles between June and July by Bay City News Service December 19, 2024 7:04 pm December 19, 2024 7 ... study ...

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. ... The glitter is spread onto chunks of apple, not part of their normal diet in the wild, ...

Scientists also want to know whether the protein-rich diet will give the squirrels an edge. “Next year we will assess the consequences of this novel behavior for the California ground squirrels ...

California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi), on most days, have a plant-forward diet.They have also been known to eat meat such as bird eggs, hatchlings, insects, or each other on ...

University of Idaho Extension educators are surveying southern and eastern Idaho potato farmers to document the scope of their problems with mouse-like rodents known as voles.