In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

Adopting pet mice is a big moment for anyone. Although a mouse doesn’t have the same demands as a cat or dog, caring for one ...

image: Armed with plastic bags, toothbrushes and five fluorescent colors of harmless powder, University of Utah researchers gave deer mice colorful fur before freeing them to spend the night ...

Titled The Coat Colors of Mice: A Model for Mammalian Gene Action and Interaction, this material provides a well-organized way of looking at the publication of the same name, ...

image: Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) evolved a coat color to camouflage them from visually-hunting predators through multiple mutations in a single pigmentation gene.This image relates to a ...

In 1954, America first saw color television. In 2006, mice at Johns Hopkins University finally figured out what all the fuss was about.