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Simple shifts in tooth growth turned vole molars into complex, grass-cutting tools, revealing how small developmental tweaks drive evolution.

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The woodland vole shows many adaptations for its burrowing lifestyle. The fur is short, soft, and silky, almost mole-like in texture. The front feet and claws are larger than those of its relatives.

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Two companies who illegally destroyed a habitat for the UK's fastest-declining mammal species have agreed to fund an ecological survey to "make amends". The Environment Agency (EA) said it had ...

More than 80 water voles are thriving at a wetlands reserve after they were reintroduced to halt the species' decline. The ...

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We think of squirrels as adorably harmless creatures, admiring their bushy tails and twitchy little noses and the way they cram their cheeks with nuts or seeds to bring back to their nests for later.

Water voles are being reintroduced into Surrey as part of a programme to bring the species back from local extinction. Nearly 200 water voles have been released in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire along ...