In winter, if environmental factors are unfavorable, the Pacific pocket mouse may hibernate underground until spring brings better conditions. But if adequate food supplies are available, the mouse ...

ESCONDIDO — It’s official. The world’s oldest mouse in human care is a tiny critter living at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Guinness World Records adjudicator Michael Empric came from New York to the ...

The tiny Pacific pocket mouse, named Pat after Patrick Stewart, weighs about the same as three pennies and is part of a San Diego-based conservation breeding program for the endangered species Anna ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

A tiny California mouse now has a big title after winning a Guinness World record for longevity. A Pacific pocket mouse named Pat — after "Star Trek" actor Patrick Stewart — received the Guinness ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

There’s a flash of brown as the tiny, endangered mouse scurries across the sandy, brushy hillside above Laguna Beach and crouches frozen under a shrub. As the sun dips behind the ocean far below, the ...

A tiny, furry brown creature that may be the world’s smallest rodent — the Pacific pocket mouse — could change the fate of a multimillion-dollar sewage-treatment plant to be built near the ...