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.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, ...

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 ...