The name “rodent” brings to mind a variety of objectionable creatures because how they live perturbs us, especially if they live in our space. A marmot chirping while sprawled atop a boulder high in ...

Chipmunk specimens in the Field Museum's collections. Tiny rodents living in a major American city are unique examples of evolution playing out in real time. “Museum collections allow you to time ...

Three stories above the Field Museum’s exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum’s mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie ...

The evening is calm with a pleasant temperature. I take a walk to the lake. Along the route to this wetland, I pass through a forest of mostly oaks and maples. With leaves falling from the trees, the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A few weeks ago, Pat Sullivan from Sullivan Hardware and Garden shared on 13Sunrise his DIY advice on how to rid your yard of moles. A generally universal disdain for the burrowing ...

Q: I found this snake in my wife’s flower bed, where chipmunks are digging holes that dry out the roots. My question: Do snakes burp? — Robert Reeves, Madison A: That’s a fine fat fellow you have. The ...