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 ...

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting-edge analyses researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising evolutionary history of the Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus), revealing it to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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WITH all our recent knowledge of the Northern Fauna, and the ample opportunities of the Scandinavian naturalists, the animal in question still seems to have evaded a thorough scrutiny and complete ...