Experts are sounding the alarm over the spread of a rare, deadly rodent virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa.

When a shadow of a potential predator looms overhead, forest mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) dash for cover, while their open-field cousins (Peromyscus polionotus) freeze in place.

WARSAW, Poland - A zoo in Poland says it’s the first to capture on video the birth of a rare Philippine mouse-deer and everyone’s hoping it’s a male so it can help the endangered species breed.

Two closely-related species of deer mice have evolved very different responses to aerial predators thanks to tweaks in deep brain circuitry.

Federal scientists have documented a sharp surge in human cases of the nasty virus, which is transmitted via droppings from the commonplace deer mouse By Tom Blackwell Published Jun 09, 2015 ...

Researchers have identified a neural switch in the brain’s dorsal periaqueductal gray that determines whether mice flee or freeze in response to threats. The switch is tuned by evolution depending on ...

A zoo in Poland says it's the first to have captured on video the birth of a rare Philippine mouse-deer, and everyone's hoping it’s a male so it can help the endangered species breed. The night birth ...