Rodents are usually stereotyped as furtive, gnawing, crop and foodstuff spoiling, small mammals with few redeeming qualities, and I would wager, if asked to describe a mouse, many people’s model would ...

In South Texas, there truly are field mice that are carnivorous and they stand on their hind legs, put their heads back and howl like a wolf. They are loud, nocturnal predators, heard up to 100 yards ...

The grasshopper mouse, a nocturnal creature that lives in abandoned burrows, is rarely found in Kansas, officials said. Photo from Diedre Kramer/KDWP A bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creature has been ...

In the dark expanses of the Sonoran desert in the US, a terrifying creature stalks the night, searching for fresh meat. Anything will do: crickets, rodents, tarantulas – the nastier the better. Even ...

The Noontime Nature lecture, “Mouse by Moonlight,” at the Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., will be presented twice on Tuesday, June 3, at noon to 1 p.m. and again 2 to 3 p.m. The program ...

I didn’t believe it until I actually heard it. There is an unusual mouse who literally howls at the Moon before killing its prey. Called the grasshopper mouse, it’s a rare carnivorous mouse who eats ...

Before crunching into its prey, the grasshopper mouse howls. The sound is a high, sustained whistle which pierces the desert night. It is as if the rodent is imitating a wolf at miniature scale – the ...