The size and shape of lawn holes can tell you who's digging them You can determine the source of holes in your yard without ...

It’s fair to assume that watching a cat and dog team up to intimidate a vole wasn’t on many people's Bingo cards today. But ...

In 2012, scientists first read out the DNA in the voles’ genetic instruction book, or genome. And although in some ways the rodent is a bucktoothed burrower like any other, sometimes considered ...

The nose of this small rodent is yellowish orange, and thus another common name, the yellow-nosed vole. The rest of the body is yellowish to grayish brown above and silvery gray below. The ears ...

Both the latin pinetorum and another common name, the pine vole, refer to a habitat this rodent occupies only in the Southeast. In the Adirondacks, it chiefly resides in deciduous and mixed forests ...

A small furry rodent could be key to understanding how we are changed by love. Researchers with the University of Texas are studying prairie voles to discover how coupling influences our brain and ...

and even prefer each other’s company over that of other voles. Decades of research on the monogamous rodents have led to a better understanding of the so-called love molecule oxytocin, a hormone that ...

Ms Luck said the guinea pig-sized rodents, sometimes called water rats, were "one of the UK's most-charming little mammals". Water voles were thought to be extinct in the county as recently as the ...

Water voles are Britain's fastest-declining mammal, having lost 90% of their population since the 1970s People in Devon are being urged to take part in a national survey of water voles by a ...