One group of mice easily outnumbers all other native, North American rodents in numbers of species and widespread distributions throughout North America. They are collectively referred to as deer mice ...

Looks like: Body is 3 to 4 inches long, and tail is 2 to 5 inches long. Color of back is variable, but generally grayish brown, with white belly and feet. Can be confused with other similar species, ...

Over the past few thousand years, Florida's deer mice evolved lighter fur and different camouflaging to survive on beaches, a new study suggests. The lighter tan color is controlled by one protein, ...

Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) evolved a coat color to camouflage them from visually-hunting predators through multiple mutations in a single pigmentation gene. This image relates to a paper that ...