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 ...

The researchers also identified hundreds of mutations unique to the Norwegian lemming, particularly in genes related to coat color, fat metabolism, and possibly even behavior. These genomic ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Lemming numbers are dwindling in Norway because of climate change, ending a historic cycle of population booms and busts that inspired a myth of mass suicides by the rodents, ...

New research has revealed that the Norwegian lemming is one of the youngest mammals on Earth. The team found that the Norwegian lemming split from its closest relative, the Western Siberian lemming, ...

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting-edge analyses researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising evolutionary history of the Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus), revealing it to ...

Learn more about how genetic research reveals the Norwegian lemming only split from its Siberian cousin 35,000 years ago. New research has revealed that the Norwegian lemming is one of the youngest ...

The thing most people know about lemmings – their tendency to follow each other off a cliff – is not actually true (more on that later), but scientists have just learned something new about them: they ...