Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium knows just how beloved these large rodents are; the water-loving animals are the ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

Rodents in Chicago have been adapting to an increasingly urban environment over the past century, ... An example of this evolution was discovered by researchers at the Field Museum in Chicago, ...

The rich label the rodents “pests,” but are these “masters of the grasses” invaders or merely “reappropriating” what is theirs? Gated communities and golf courses are located on ...

Squirrels were filmed feasting on tiny rodents. Scientists are perplexed. Researchers said in a new study that they were stunned to witness California ground squirrels, who mostly eat nuts and ...