The woodland vole shows many adaptations for its burrowing lifestyle. The fur is short, soft, and silky, almost mole-like in texture. The front feet and claws are larger than those of its relatives.

You may recognize those unsightly raised ridges and bumps all over your lawn as the handiwork of moles digging around for their dinners. But some types of tunneling are caused by a different small ...

This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

Learn to tell these critters apart, and handle them safely, with advice from experts. Damian Kuzdak/Getty Images If you find a small, furry creature crawling around in your garden, would you know if ...

How do a fully sequenced genome, microbiomics, and intensive population genetics help save a critically endangered mammal? Provided by Professor Janet Foley of UC Davis Veterinary Medicine. There are ...

Rare marshes critical to voles’ survival are degraded and dying Mojave Desert population down to about 500 amid climate change UC Davis has captive breeding program, but it's not enough Despite the ...

FARGO -- In his biblical battle with Pharaoh, Moses neglected to rain down one of the worst plagues imaginable: If he had sent voles to attack the Egyptian ruler’s well-manicured lawn, Pharaoh would ...

Wicket, a black Labrador mix, zigzagged through a hillside of ferns, nose to ground, and abruptly sat down near a tangled thicket, a clear signal that she had found something important. Could it be, ...

Bachelor prairie voles can’t tell females of their species apart. Yet the clueless fellows can change, forming pair-bonds for life with the opposite sex and even distinguishing between two female ...

Researchers are assessing the damage after a wildfire near the California-Nevada border burned through critical habitat for one of North America’s most endangered rodents. Monday’s lightning-sparked ...

Voles and crabgrass are two lawn troubles that can reach epidemic proportions. I don’t recall the last time I saw so much vole damage in area lawns, at least in certain communities. When lawns are ...