You hear scampering sounds inside your walls. Next, you find bits of your couch cushion missing. Then, you see a small furry critter scurrying away out of the corner of your eye. Mice have infiltrated ...

Fall décor can attract squirrels, chipmunks, and rodents — and once they start snacking, they may look for ways into your ...

The thrust is that studies of house mouse vocalisations have focused on ultrasonic sounds that humans can't hear ... audible ...

University of Washington researchers have developed an AI program that uses machine learning in an effort to decipher the ultrasonic vocalizations made by mice. (UW Medicine Illustration / Alice Gray) ...

Putting the uniquely human version of a certain gene into mice changed the way that those animals vocalized to each other, suggesting that this gene may play a role in speech and language. Mice make a ...

Given all that biologists know about living creatures, we often assume that little remains to be discovered. Yet some surprising recent research cautions us that there is more to many species than has ...

People like to talk. We're unique in the animal kingdom in terms of how much we communicate and the kinds of information we discuss. Scientists are trying to understand how this special trait evolved ...