There might be a link between fatherhood and urine spraying for mice. In a new study, researchers found that male house mice that surpass their peers at marking their territory tend to have more ...

Female mice that are heavily pregnant or have recently given birth produce a banana-smelling chemical in their urine that stresses out males, possibly to stop them from killing their pups. Jeffrey ...

What are your biggest phobias? For me, I have worked for years to try and be just okay with a spider in the room — doesn’t matter how big or small, hairy or leggy. They are all equally terrifying.

Newborn female mice that sniff odours from adult female mice live 8 per cent longer than expected, possibly because their puberty gets delayed. We have known since the 1970s that getting young female ...

Scientists say late-pregnant and lactating female mice have a compound in their urine that creates stress for male mice. The compound found in their urine is similar to a compound in banana oil. When ...

When male mice and pregnant or lactating female mice are placed closely together, chemical signals in the females’ urine stress the males out and make them less sensitive to pain, according to a study ...