How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...

Scientists from Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands filmed wild mice using an outdoor wheel for three years to analyse their behaviour They found the behaviour is natural even if ...

Much like the protagonists of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, a real-life genus of agile, closely related North American wild mice displays strikingly diverse behaviors. Mice of the genus ...

For pet and lab mice, running wheels are a common feature, often used to encourage exercise. However, some scientists have argued that mice only run on these wheels because they live in cages and that ...

In the wild, these reptiles are known to feed on small mice and make quick work of catching their prey. Many of the larger lizards consume small mice, and while live prey isn’t generally fed to ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. To test whether nuclear cloning could be used to generate transgenic mice with targeted insertions, we integrated a tet-transactivator ...

The greater mouse-eared bat, known by its Latin name as Myotis myotis, was declared extinct in the UK in 1992 following decades of decline. In 2002, however, a single male was discovered hibernating ...

Singing possibly allows these mice to avoid injury and conserve energy, as aggressive physical encounters in the wild can be quite costly. What’s particularly striking is that these singing ...