Aug 17, 2016 by Natali Anderson

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...

Sep 8, 2015 by News Staff

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...

May 29, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dr William Korth of Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Dr Joshua Samuels of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument have...

Feb 4, 2015 by News Staff

Josephoartigasia monesi – a giant rodent that lived in what is now Uruguay from the Pliocene to early Pleistocene, 4 to 2 million years ago –...

Jul 22, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of scientists headed by Dr Scott Gardner of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has described four new species of burrowing rodents...

Sep 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

Jul 24, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that...