Safe trapping options, door sweeps and copper mesh sealing can keep rodents out.

Switch up food attractants and change trap placements for bait-shy rodents.

Few diseases have been with us as long as the plague. We often talk about the deadly disease in the past tense, but the truth is that it never really went away — particularly in rodent populations.

Scientists have debated the purpose of the ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) produced by rodents since the discovery of these sounds in the 1950s. There's a wide research consensus suggesting USVs are a ...

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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 ...

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"Rodents make up almost half of the mammal species on Earth, and they're found on every continent except Antarctica. Their thumbnails might help explain why rodents became so successful," says ...

The overlooked thumbs of rodents are key to understanding the lives of mice, rats and more. Thumbnails, claws and other structures reveal new ways of understanding how rodents feed, move and evolve.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Scientists have debated the purpose of the ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) produced by rodents since the discovery of these sounds in the 1950s. There’s a wide research consensus ...