The meadow vole is well known for its fecundity. One female, kept in a laboratory, gave birth to 17 litters in one year. With a life span averaging less than a year in the wild, most females produce ...

This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

Lake District welcomes reintroduction of water voles Volunteers will check the pens in the coming days, eventually removing them when the newly wild voles have moved into their own burrows.

Recently, I was camped along a wild, remote river in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ... returning a few minutes later ...

Dozens of water voles have been released into the wild in Cornwall to help improve a wetland. The Duchy of Cornwall said it released 80 water voles in the River Fowey at Restormel. The rodents ...

The voles need more protection or they’ll be driven extinct ... million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a ...

“The red tree vole, and the diverse older forests it inhabits, are vital to the survival of northern spotted owls, wild salmon and countless other species,” said Danielle Moser, wildlife program ...

Wild rodents offer particularly exciting opportunities to pursue such research. They are behaviorally diverse, yet allow researchers to use many of the same tools developed for model organism. Voles ...

“If Dad weren’t around, I wouldn’t be working this hard.” It was then that a red-tailed hawk flew down from its perch on a ...

The software king of the world, Microsoft has been using its Azure cloud platform "to hunt phishers at scale" and waste their time. Microsoft's self-styled "Head of Deception." Ross Bevington said ...

Extinction-threatened wild birds and the native Orkney Vole are surging on Orkney after conservation efforts to eradicate ...