That common name isn’t for nothing: New Mexico meadow jumping mice are amazing jumpers. Pushing off their big hind feet while keeping balance with their long tails, they can leap as far as 3 feet.

Project was paused to evaluate possible impact to habitat of New Mexico jumping mouse A development project for a section of the Animas River Trail is scheduled to resume the first week of April. The ...

A rare mouse and imperiled owl species, both native to the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico were at the center of a lawsuit filed by conservationists alleging the federal government failed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A first-of-its-kind venture in Colorado is bringing public and private entities together to sustain a tiny mouse whose habitat has shrunk as development, ...

A New Mexico meadow jumping mouse captured eating between blades of grass. (J.N. Stuart/flickr via Courthouse News) (CN) — The 10th Circuit upheld the dismissal of a complaint filed by New Mexico ...

The Center for Biological Diversity contends that the government hasn’t done enough to protect the mouse from cattle grazing. An environmental group plans to make its case in court that the Interior ...

A federal judge upheld protection for the habitat of an endangered mouse in New Mexico, dismissing a lawsuit brought by two ranching groups. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse historically dwells ...

An acrobatic mouse is threatening Bush administration efforts to give Western developers an upper hand over endangered species. The Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is in fact a unique creature with ...

He went on to say that “White-footed mice are found in deciduous, mixed, and coniferous woodlands in much of the eastern ...