TUCSON (CN) - Uncle Sam refuses to protect the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, a tiny desert rodent with big feet (1.2 inches) that help it swim and thrive in the Southwest's rare streamside ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A first-of-its-kind venture in Colorado is bringing public and private entities together to sustain a tiny mouse whose habitat has shrunk as development, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A little play therapy — for children and grownups — awaits outdoors during the Turkey Trot and family scavenger hunt, a fundraiser for the Jumping Mouse Children’s Center starting this ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal court in New Mexico ruled against two cattlemen’s associations that wanted to overturn the designation of a critical habitat for the endangered New Mexico jumping meadow ...

That common name isn’t for nothing: New Mexico meadow jumping mice are amazing jumpers. Pushing off their big hind feet while keeping balance with their long tails, they can leap as far as 3 feet.

He went on to say that “White-footed mice are found in deciduous, mixed, and coniferous woodlands in much of the eastern ...

A federal judge upheld protection for the habitat of an endangered mouse in New Mexico, dismissing a lawsuit brought by two ranching groups. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse historically dwells ...