The evening is calm with a pleasant temperature. I take a walk to the lake. Along the route to this wetland, I pass through a forest of mostly oaks and maples. With leaves falling from the trees, the ...

Blooms from this abundant plant occur simultaneously every 48 or 50 years. Here's why this causes a 'rat flood' and, ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

If you have seen an owl on Capitol Hill in the past decade, there is a strong chance it was a Barred Owl (Strix varia). In ...

On a warm May day, an all-black domestic shorthair cat named Pepper entered his Gainesville, Florida, home and dropped a dead ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

"Many viruses that we don't know about circulate in animals that live in close proximity to humans," researcher Emily DeRuyter said.

US researchers have found an astonishingly simple brain circuit of just three types of neurons controls chewing motions in ...

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and macaques, showing both shared and unique traits.

Scientists discovered a mechanoreceptor that triggers the distinctive shake-off behavior observed in mice when they become ...