Diversification in small mammals is associated with climatic specialisation, whereas species accumulation reflects evolutionary time www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Who Has Opposable Thumbs and a Prehensile Tail? This Tree Rat That Few Have Ever Seen www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...

Who Has Opposable Thumbs and a Prehensile Tail? This Tree Rat That Few Have Ever Seen

After sequencing the DNA of the world’s only Emmons’s tree rat specimen, museum scientists have returned to the Bornean forest to learn more about the mysterious rodent

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Tupaia belangeri Bangkok (Thailand)

The Rufford Small Grants Programme is designed to support early career conservationists. There is an open call for applications which should be submitted online here: apply.ruffordsmallgrants.org

Any small mammal conservationists out there interested in applying??? Whitley Awards recognise grassroots conservation leaders, providing funding to support & scale up proven, science-based solutions that deliver lasting impact for both people & nature. Deadline 30 October 2026. whitleyaward.org

15th African Small Mammal Symposium 14-18 June 2027, Diani, Kenya www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

15th African Small Mammal Symposium | University of Helsinki

14-18 June 2027, Diani, Kenya

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Over 10,000 traps reveal only 1 pookila in southeast Queensland survey

It's 5 a.m. when we crawl out of our tents. The catbirds are calling and the night sky is fading to dawn as we prepare to head into the wilderness. We're surrounded by the towering eucalypts of southe...

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Discover the people changing our planet’s future. Future For Nature supports young explorers who turn their passion for nature into real-world change.

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We're delighted to have been joined by a new @ox.ac.uk student on an SMSG Red List internship. Welcome to the team Olivia Jones! small-mammals.org/2026/07/17/o...

New paper out that includes two SMSG members from Sulawesi: Predicting current and future habitat suitability of two endemic rodents, Bunomys andrewsi and B. penitus using MaxENT species distribution modelling www.doi.org/10.47605/tap...

v15i2.409 | Volume 15 | Number 2 | 2026 | Taprobanica

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Tainted Love: The Trafficking of Mammals for Pets in Middle and South America link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Tainted Love: The Trafficking of Mammals for Pets in Middle and South America

This chapter describes current illegal uses, exploitation, and seizure data on mammalian species of Central and South America. Official seizure data was obtained directly from governmental institution...

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Adaptation across an extreme elevational gradient in Andean leaf-eared mice, the world’s highest-dwelling mammal | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Adaptation across an extreme elevational gradient in Andean leaf-eared mice, the world’s highest-dwelling mammal

Andean leaf-eared mice (Phyllotis vaccarum) live at the highest elevations of any mammal, and they also have the broadest elevational range, from sea level to mountain summits of >6700 meters. Highlan...

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A new species of Alticola (Mammalia, Rodentia, Arvicolinae) from southern Tibet, China zse.pensoft.net/articles.php...

A new species of Alticola (Mammalia, Rodentia, Arvicolinae) from southern Tibet, China

The complex topography and diverse habitats of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have made it a center of speciation and evolution for various taxa, including small mammals. Our surveys in 2008 and 2023 on th...

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Molecular phylogeny of rare arboreal rats from SE Asia, genera Pithecheir and Pithecheirops link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Molecular phylogeny of rare arboreal rats from SE Asia, genera Pithecheir and Pithecheirops - Mammalian Biology

Rodents, particularly the family Muridae, are exceptionally species-rich, with a global distribution and significant ecological and economic roles. Despite their ubiquity, many murids remain poorly st...

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This summer, the SMSG team has been pleased to be joined by Hino Tanaka, who is based at Middlebury College, Vermont. He is working in the lab of Dr. Alexis Mychajliw and concentrating on Japanese small mammals. Hear from Hino about his placement here: small-mammals.org/2026/07/02/h...

Did you register for the Small Mammal Conservation Conference? Not yet? Do so today, because after today the participation fee will be higher. smcc.habitatfoundation.org #discovermammals #conference #mouse #vole #Bulgaria #shrew #squirrel #hamster #rodent Photo Wood mouse: Rollin Verlinde (Vilda)

Three decades of classifying threatened species: lessons learned from and about the IUCN Red List criteria for quantifying extinction risk doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Three decades of classifying threatened species: lessons learned from and about the IUCN Red List criteria for quantifying extinction risk

Abstract. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the most widely used global system for assessing species’ extinction risk, has become a foundational sou

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Phylogeography of Terricola Voles in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia, with a New Southernmost Record of Microtus daghestanicus (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Arvicolinae) doi.org/10.15407/zoo...

Kha-nyou – An ancient enigma with an identity crisis Check out this guest article on our website about this quirky small mammal: small-mammals.org/2026/06/30/k...

Just to remind you that coming Wednesday, July 1, is the deadline for submitting abstracts for the Small Mammal Conservation Conference. Its is also the deadline for registration for the conference. smcc.habitatfoundation.org #discovermammals #mouse #vole #shrew #hamster #souslik #raptor #Bulgaria

NEW BOOK: Conservation of steppic mammals of the Pannonian Biogeographic Region. Features several wonderful small mammals! Free to download (click "LETÖLTÉS") here: www.grasslandlifeip.hu/node/507

Rodents of Africa book to be published soon!

Are you a young (18 to 35) and dedicated nature conservationist committed to protecting wild species? Do you combine passion with action to create concrete results in nature conservation? Are you the Future For Nature? Deadline is August 23, 23:00 (CEST). futurefornature.org/future-for-n...

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Have you ever seen the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata)? The tentacle-like appendages that surround this mole’s nose contain more than 100,000 nerve fibers, making it one of the most sensitive touch organs on Earth! Photo: halbrindley, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

#RodentOfTheDay California Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi) "California ground squirrels live in burrow systems that can house many generations, forming a sort of colony. Each individual has an entrance of their own." #SqrlPix Photo license/info: animaldiversity.org/accounts/Spe...

Fauna & Flora is offering early-career conservationists in Greenland and Northern Norway the opportunity to apply for a Future Arctic Conservationist Award of up to US$15,000 Any small mammal biologists there interested? www.fauna-flora.org/future-arcti...

Future Arctic Conservationist Award

Fauna & Flora is offering early-career conservationists in Greenland and Northern Norway the opportunity to apply for an award of up to US$15,000.

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Genomic evidence of a previously undetected Peromyscus truei invasion on San Clemente Island, California therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/TH...

Genomic evidence of a previously undetected Peromyscus truei invasion on San Clemente Island, California

Museum genomics (museomics) provide powerful tools for detecting cryptic diversity in natural history collections, including previously undetected invasions. We analyzed genomic and morphological data...

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A new genus and species of octodontid rodent from the hilly Chaco of central Argentina (Rodentia: Octodontidae) vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/articles.php...

A new genus and species of octodontid rodent from the hilly Chaco of central Argentina (Rodentia: Octodontidae)

Abstract Octodontidae is a moderately speciose family (seven genera and 16 species) of South American caviomorph rodents; however, from an ecological point of view, it is a d...

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Integrative taxonomic revision of Uropsilus (Uropsilinae, Talpidae) combining genomic, morphological and geographic evidence doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

Discovery of a new species of Coendou (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) within the hyper-diverse mammalian community of Sangay National Park in Ecuador peerj.com/articles/213...