Latest Oldfield mouse Stories

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online By studying oldfield mice – colloquially known as ‘beach mice’ (Peromyscus polionotus) – as they dug through a mound of dirt in her San Diego garage, biologist Hopi Hoekstra discovered that the diligent rodents construct their burrows in extremely predictable patterns. Working on a hunch that the mice probably inherit this behavior, she and a team of colleagues conducted a genetic analysis of the tiny rodents and found that...