A new species of mouse with a remarkably long tail, dubbed Otavalo’s Andean mouse, has been discovered near a dormant volcano in Ecuador. Named in honor of the local Otavalo culture, the mouse ...

5 in the peer-reviewed journal Vertebrate Zoology. The “very long tail” belongs to the Otavalo’s Andean mouse, Thomasomys otavalo, recently discovered as a new species. “The specific ...

The meadow jumping mouse has hind legs much longer than the front legs and a tapered tail that is nearly twice as long as the combined length of the head and body. The coarse fur is yellowish brown ...

Incanomys mayopuma, or the Incan water mouse, is about 10 inches long and has traits such as a long flattened tail and large hindfeet with fringe hairs, which indicate it is strongly adapted to ...

But they can also move from a higher limb to a lower limb by dragging that long tail across the upper limb and lowering themselves slowly to a lower limb." You may like Northern giant mouse lemur ...

Under a cover of darkness, an “elusive” creature with a “long” tail flew through a mountain forest in northern India — or tried to, at least. But something enveloped it and trapped it. Scientists ...

Long-tailed tits must be up there for an award as our most cute little birds, and especially so for the young fledglings. When they leave the nest, the babies will often line up together on a tree ...

Overall, the mouse-eared bat’s fur is “dark brown” with some lighter hues mixed in and a paler golden-brown belly. The habitat where a Myotis himalaicus, or Himalayan long-tailed Myotis ...