Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

A dog is making a difference in West Warwick, in more ways than one. She's become something of a town icon, living alongside some brave men and women.

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Ecologists in Australia flipped through thousands of photos taken on trail cameras at a national park. They were looking for ...

Arizona is home to world record holding animals and insects. That includes this cute critter, which is the smallest of its ...

In a lab in Japan, scientists transformed cells from the tails of male mice into eggs. They fertilized the eggs with ordinary mouse sperm and implanted them in surrogate mouse moms. The experiment ...

Where I grew up, trout were king. Over a dozen trout streams were less than 20 minutes from my New England home, all of which contained a variety of both wild and stocked rainbows, brookies, and ...

Tail movement evoked by various tilt amplitudes. Ipsilateral per turbation trials with 10, 20 and 30 degree tilts shown in normal and 4x slowed-down video. Credit: Journal of Experimental Biology ...

A challenge to mice and research In addition to elucidating the role of mice tails, the researchers also developed a new experimental setup for assessing mouse balance. The previous standard is a ...

Previously, the role of mice tails in maintaining balance was poorly understood and often overlooked in experiments. "While mice are crucial in neuroscience because of their likeness to us, our ...

Tracking and modeling mouse movements during the platform walking task. Ipsilateral movements (IL) refer to the tail being on the same side as the tilt direction, while contralateral (CL ...