Nearly blind, Typhlomys cinereus thrives in the high forests of southeastern China and Vietnam—with a little help from another sense. Wikimedia Commons When the sun goes down on the forests of Vietnam ...

Today, only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India. However, the oldest spiny dormouse in evolutionary history, a member of the rodent family, was found in sediment dating back ...

Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

Artist's reconstruction of a spiny dormouse in the wetlands of the Hammerschmiede; inset shows the upper molar—just 1.4 millimeters long—of Neocometes brunonis, the last member of the rodent family of ...

Team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen finds 11.6 million year old evidence of the rodent at the Hammerschmiede clay pit Very few know ...