Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s worth of chipmunk and vole specimens from Chicago, researchers discovered ...

Scientists recently found an example of evolution in real time, tucked away in the collection drawers of the Field Museum in ...

The chance observation of an adult female common European adder killing and intending to swallow a much larger prey—a ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...

Rodents are evolving to cope with living in urban areas, reveals new research. Chipmunk and vole skulls from 125 years ago compared to today reflect changes in diet and noise exposure, say ...

Researchers at the Field Museum studied chipmunk and vole specimens from a century ago till now to examine the influence of people on rodents over time.

The findings of a new study "clearly show that interfering with the environment has a detectable effect on wildlife," a ...

Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local rodents — and how humans may have ...

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his ...

Meadowlarks, robins and vesper sparrows greeted the dawn, each exhalation of their voices adding a quantum of mist to that in ...

I hasten to add, for those who remember a certain former governor of South Carolina, that this is not a euphemism. My brother and I really were hiking the trail through Shenandoah National Park, ...