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

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

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

Social System - The eastern chipmunk is polygamous, sedentary, and usually solitary. Adults have a home range of 0.2-0.4 ha (0.5-1.0 acre) which may overlap with others. An individual defends the area ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

The eastern chipmunk also qualifies as a one-of-a-kind species in a genus all its own, and it lives only in eastern North America. That leaves 23 chipmunk species in a third genus, ...

The animal that I am speaking of is an eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) and it was almost certainly a female and this in itself was a point of contention for me.

Chicago rodents have evolved with city life. Museum skulls reveal how urbanization is quietly reshaping wildlife.