Alaska has strict laws regulating the types of animals that can be kept as pets. If you're wondering what exotic animals are ...

New research links childhood adversity with later attention deficits, sleep disruptions, and specific dopamine imbalances 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 ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

Skunks can be a nuisance, and they may take up residence under your house or in your yard. Here’s how to get rid of skunks in ...

A team of neurobiologists at Harvard Medical School's Howard Hughes Medical Institute has uncovered the neural mechanism ...

They worked primarily with mice, using various genetic tools to manipulate specific types of neurons. They created specialized mouse lines where they could either activate or eliminate specific ...

Understanding how it happens can therefore inform how and why it’s been evolutionarily conserved across so many furry mammals. Mice are another species that exhibit wet dog shakes, and so a team of ...

In this study, when mice ate the artificial sweetener saccharin, the numbers and types of bacteria in their guts changed – ...

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

It’s a moment most house-proud dog owners dread. But now Harvard scientists may have discovered the real reason animals shake ...

A study on mice investigating therapeutic food for malnourished children uncovers diverse functions of a newly identified gut ...