Animals show different cancer levels based on how they share, compete, and care. Social behavior shapes cancer risk across ...

Pests come in all shapes and sizes, but none quite make our skin crawl like rodents — a group of mammals that includes rats, mice, squirrels, and chipmunks, that are characterized by their ...

The overlooked thumbs of rodents are key to understanding the lives of mice, rats and more. Thumbnails, claws and other structures reveal new ways of understanding how rodents feed, move and evolve.

An international team has reconstructed the genome organization of the earliest common ancestor of all mammals. The reconstructed ancestral genome could help in understanding the evolution of mammals ...

Rodents don't puke, and now researchers understand why. They apparently lack both the brains and bodies for vomiting. Future research could help lead to better anti-vomiting therapies for patients ...

ROSEVILLE -- Rodents are wreaking havoc in Roseville parks, but Placer County officials have found a creative way to give nature a chance to fight back. Josh Huntsinger says the vole population has ...

There was once a little mouse that caused a big problem. The critter crawled up in the wheel well of a parked car, made his way over the brakes and up into the engine. Most rodents would stop there, ...