The Field’s collection of a Chicago-area rodent is showing just how fast animals can evolve to co-exist with humans.

That is certainly the case in Gananoque, where two animals have earned the affection of residents at a local retirement home. Speaking from the home’s garden on a beautiful summer day, resident Joyce ...

Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

John Dunn, a retired Wisconsin DNR field biologist with 40 years of experience, will join the roundtable conversation at the ...

Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local rodents — and how humans may have ...

Chicago rodents have evolved with city life. Museum skulls reveal how urbanization is quietly reshaping wildlife.

From bears to rodents, learn to ID scat by size, shape, and content to determine which animal has been in your area and what ...

The findings of a new study "clearly show that interfering with the environment has a detectable effect on wildlife," a ...

You can’t help but enjoy witnessing a happy chipmunk or squirrel frolicking about in utter delight…unless, of course, the ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...

Scientists recently found an example of evolution in real time, tucked away in the collection drawers of the Field Museum in ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.