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 ...

Large individuals may weigh as much as 26 g (10.9 oz.). Brighter colors, fewer teeth, and the white-tipped tail (the white hair absent) distinguished the woodland from the meadow jumping mouse. The ...

These acrobatic rodents love to swim, too, rarely venturing more than a few feet from running water. Unlike other meadow jumping mouse subspecies, they’re “riparian obligates,” living only in a ...

Mary Alice and I went to a Christmas tree farm to buy our tree. While waiting to pay for the tree we selected, a young couple ahead of us were paying for the tree they had just cut down. The young man ...

By not fixing the illegal cattle grazing, they said the feds are ignoring the well-being of endangered animals including, the ...