The large hind limbs, bright colors, and long, tapered, white-tipped tail identify the woodland jumping mouse. The 115-160 mm (4.5-6.3 in), sparsely-haired tail, grayish brown above, and white below ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

Even with federal protection, New Mexico meadow jumping mice are being driven extinct by grazing on public lands. They’ve almost disappeared from two of the last places they live: the Sacramento ...

A white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus ... known as torpor during the hottest part of the summer. The woodland jumping ...

The study, which shows knee cartilage in mice grew healthier following jumping exercises, appears in the journal npj Microgravity. “Since the next step in human exploration of space is going to ...

Finally, the researchers investigated whether silencing LINE-1 elements would improve mice’s ataxia. To stop LINE-1 jumping, they gave 4-week-old model mice 3TC, an FDA-approved antiretroviral drug ...