For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...
Rodents such as rats and mice huddle together to keep warm. In a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, scientists...
Paleontologists Dr William Korth of Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Dr Joshua Samuels of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument have...
A multinational group of scientists headed by Dr Scott Gardner of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has described four new species of burrowing rodents...
A team of scientists from Indonesia, Denmark, France and the United States has discovered a new species and genus of rodent on the Halmahera Island in...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that...