New findings suggest that a special combination of predators can drive lemming populations through a four-year boom and bust cycle, which has been one of ecology's big mysteries for over half a ...

You’ve almost certainly heard the idea, and probably used it as a metaphor: lemmings, those small Arctic rodents, are famous for supposedly committing mass suicide, blindly following one another off ...

The number of lemmings (Lemmus lemmus) in the mountains can fluctuate sharply from one year to the next. Years when populations explode are called lemming years. These population explosions are ...

We’ve all heard that lemmings jump into the sea every year, drowning themselves because they are just following the herd. Except they don’t. That’s actually a myth invented for a Disney wildlife ...

A new ancient DNA study shows that the Norwegian lemming has a unique history. In contrast to other mammals in Fennoscandia, the Norwegian lemming may have survived the last Ice Age in the far north, ...

This news release is also available in French. New findings suggest that a special combination of predators can drive lemming populations through a four-year boom and bust cycle, which has been one of ...