Many may not know the northern bog lemming lives in Southeast Alaska —but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering the rarely seen mammal’s status as endangered across the United States and ...

A study of the genomic variation of the collared lemming across its range in northern Eurasia finds that the highest mitochondrial genetic diversity resides in West Beringia, supporting a hypothesis ...

New findings suggest that a special combination of predators can drive lemming populations through a four-year boom and bust cycle, which has been one of ecology's big mysteries for over half a ...

One myth deeply entrenched in our language is that of the "Lemming Suicide Plunge" - where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be ...

For centuries, people have puzzled over lemmings, the northern rodents whose populations surge and crash so quickly and so regularly that they inspired an enduring myth: that lemmings commit mass ...

This news release is also available in French. New findings suggest that a special combination of predators can drive lemming populations through a four-year boom and bust cycle, which has been one of ...