The name “rodent” brings to mind a variety of objectionable creatures because how they live perturbs us, especially if they live in our space. A marmot chirping while sprawled atop a boulder high in ...
Chipmunk specimens in the Field Museum's collections. Tiny rodents living in a major American city are unique examples of evolution playing out in real time. “Museum collections allow you to time ...
Three stories above the Field Museum’s exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum’s mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie ...