The Pacific pocket mouse is one of the smallest mammals in North America, and thanks to 20 years of work, it is making a ...

Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September ...

Two 14-year-old conservationists in Devon, England, are inviting children to take part in an unusual wildlife project: ...

When it comes to health, some of our animal neighbors have extraordinary advantages. Ostriches, for example, are highly resistant to viruses, while sharks rarely develop cancer. And species like naked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The normal response to seeing a wild mouse in your house is to scream, right? Well, that’s what we do at least! Maybe afterward ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they expected skittish, fragile animals to struggle. Instead, the mice rapidly shed ...

A multi-year Connecticut field study found that low-dose fipronil bait stations reduced larval blacklegged ticks on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just one ...

Antibiotic resistance in humans and farm animals poses a major health challenge. A new study published in the journal 'Nature Communications' reveals that this problem does not stop at hospital doors ...

When you take the lab away, female mice are more likely to play, according to a new Cornell study. The study, published in the journal BMC Biology, took lab mice and placed them in large outdoor ...