Voles are rodents that are closer in size and shape to hamsters than they are to the similarly sounding moles. These rodents are a common sight throughout North America, but some people ascribe a mole ...

Holyoke is debating banning rodent poison after hawk deaths, weighing wildlife safety against pest control needs.

Many rodents have nails on their thumbs and claws on the rest of their fingers. A new study suggests this trait might have been key to their world domination. Missagia et al. Rodents are the largest ...

The family tree that the researchers assembled also indicated that rodents with thumbnails go way back. The data suggest that all modern rodents descend from a common ancestor that had thumbnails too.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — Rodents can transmit a variety of infections, including Hantavirus. For the state of New Mexico, a total of 135 Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome cases have been reported between 1975 ...