In 1958, Disney released a wildlife documentary called "White Wilderness." One scene depicts a tiny, brown-furred rodent — a lemming — scuttling about in the Arctic snow. "There is an actual living ...

"Our findings indicate that the Norwegian lemming is among the most recently evolved mammals, diverging from its sister taxon, the Western Siberian lemming, at a remarkably shallow time depth. After ...

Changing weather patterns, producing the wrong kind of snow, have transformed the population dynamics of lemmings in northern Scandinavia. The knock-on effects have been felt throughout the ecosystem.

OSLO (Reuters) - Lemming numbers are dwindling in Norway because of climate change, ending a historic cycle of population booms and busts that inspired a myth of mass suicides by the rodents, ...

New research has revealed that the Norwegian lemming is one of the youngest mammals on Earth. The team found that the Norwegian lemming split from its closest relative, the Western Siberian lemming, ...

They are small. They are angry. And every four years or so they appear in masses, seemingly from nowhere. Meet the Norway lemming, perhaps the most misunderstood and mysterious animal of the ...

It’s an encouraging sign: bog lemmings are reportedly returning to swamps in The Last Green Valley. I had heard the folklore of “leaping lemmings” in Scandinavia, those poor despondent rodents who ...

If you know anything about lemmings, it's probably their reputation for plunging off cliffs in acts of mass suicide. But if the puffy little rodents could talk, they'd tell a different story: that ...

Lemming population explosions may be powered by their ability to breed through the long, dark Arctic winters. The finding adds to evidence that lemmings will be hit hard by climate change. As the ...

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