Remove food sources from your yard, like ripe produce, compost, bird seed, and pet food. Eliminate water sources like bird baths and leaky spigots. Field mice love cover to hide from predators, so ...

Researchers (left to right) Gordon Shepherd, Anderson Feijó, Lauren Johnson, and Rafaela Missagia, working in the Field Museum’s mammal collections. Picture a squirrel eating an acorn. It’s holding ...

Three stories above the Field Museum’s exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum’s mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie ...

Temperatures are dropping and many Wisconsin and Minnesota residents are noticing more mice. A couple of weeks ago, Marty Pearson’s four mouse traps couldn’t keep up with the influx of mice finding ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...