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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...