Spot the differences between chipmunks and ground squirrels with tips on their looks, tunnels, and winter habits.

The eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) drinking water in bird bath Its stripy back makes it one of the most recognisable of rodents - but until now it has been unclear exactly how the chipmunk earned ...

Chipmunks and other rodents’ light stripes are painted with a recycled brush, a new study suggests. A protein previously known to guide facial development was repurposed at least twice during ...

Scientists say they’ve found the genetic origin of stripes in chipmunks and other mice. They published their findings today in the journal Nature. Cute though they may be, rodents’ stripes are hardly ...

Hoekstra is interested in how pigment patterns—like stripes—confer fitness advantages for mammals, as well as how these patterns evolved. Unlike lab mice, both African mice and chipmunks are active ...

In Bruchac and his son's (When the Chenoo Howls) serviceable retelling of a Native American pourquoi tale, Brown Squirrel challenges prideful Bear to keep the sun from rising. When the sun does rise, ...

The species has been something of a ghost in habitat burned by the fires that raged through Sonoma and Napa counties in 2017 and 2020. Sonoma chipmunks, a species found primarily in the North Bay, are ...

A gene called Alx3 blocks the differentiation of pigment-producing cells in the skin of the African striped mouse, thus generating the mouse's characteristic light-colored stripes, a new study shows.

Its stripy back makes it one of the most recognisable of rodents - but until now it has been unclear exactly how the chipmunk earned its stripes. Now, scientists have found the evolutionary gene ...

Its stripy back makes it one of the most recognisable of rodents - but until now it has been unclear exactly how the chipmunk earned its stripes. Now, scientists have found the evolutionary gene ...