According to a study in rodents led by Prof. Charles Bourque of McGill University, the brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst in the hours before...
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...
