We were cleaning our rental house and came across quite a few mouse droppings in some drawers. We think the mouse must have ...

Insects don’t have lungs. Their blood-like hemolymph doesn’t carry oxygen. Instead, they take in oxygen through a row of ...

Not many people appreciate mice. And I’ll be the first to step forward to say that some of their habits are not endearing.

Mouse lemurs sleep aloft during the day and forage at night for insects, fruit, flowers, and other plants. These adaptable primates store fat in their tails and hind legs, burning it when forage ...

Each year around Halloween, the northern shrike lands in our region to spend the winter. A songbird slightly smaller than a ...

The omnivorous deer mouse uses its sharp incisors to gnaw through the hard coats and seeds and the chitinous exoskeleton of beetles. Small invertebrates such as insects, earthworms, and snails form an ...

Pound-for-pound, grasshopper mice are among the fiercest predators in the desert borderlands, and they’re unfazed by venomous ...

Also known as the grasshopper mouse -- the insect is a dining favorite -- the killer mouse is capable of killing creatures three times its own size. It feeds at night, using keen hearing to locate ...

Among the winners of the Close Up Photographer of the Year Awards 2025 was a bear in the forest, two stag beetles in an epic ...

The program proved successful, with Lord Howe Island declared rat- and mouse-free by late 2019. This milestone paved the way for the reintroduction of the Lord Howe Island stick insect to its ...