The wonderful world of tennis is helping nature’s tiniest mammals survive. Each year, following Wimbledon, thousands of used tennis balls are donated to UK Wildlife Trust. Volunteers at the ...

Basic ecology uses simple diagrams to illustrate how biomass is distributed in ecosystems. These “ecological pyramids” lump all primary producers (plants) at the base of the pyramid. The second level ...

One group of mice easily outnumbers all other native, North American rodents in numbers of species and widespread distributions throughout North America. They are collectively referred to as deer mice ...

Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

Alston’s singing mice carry out complex vocalizations and even appear to converse politely with one another. The neural ...