In a Caribbean cave where owls once spat out the bones of their prey, scientists have uncovered a nesting strategy that ...

Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers — along with some other rodents — have orange-brown front teeth. Researchers have published high-resolution images of rodent incisors ...

Across the United States, a semi-aquatic rodent that can weigh as much as 20 pounds is chewing through wetlands, farms, and ...

Nutria damage crops, wetlands, and flood infrastructure in many states, but California says it still has a small window to stop the rodent invasion.

Squirrels, beavers, and other rodents have orange-brown front teeth that may be key to developing oral care products that better protect human tooth enamel and ensure that restorations last longer.

Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean Islands. Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American ...

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Neoepiblemidae (Caviomorpha) includes South American hystricognath rodents that together with Chinchillidae and Dinomyidae compose the clade Chinchilloidea. Despite the considerable advance in ...

The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new ...

A large invasive species that resembles a beaver is damaging ecosystems in over a dozen US states. Nutria, native to South America, were introduced to the US in the late 1800s for their fur. The ...