Miniature Russian spyware is infiltrating an underground Canadian community. The perpetrators? Scientists studying how eastern chipmunks communicate. For the first time, the team has outfitted the ...

Here’s a summer reminder: Chipmunks and squirrels can carry infected fleas and plague, a bacterial disease people can contract through close contact with the furry animals, health officials warned.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Remember those days when television was still in black and white and Chip & Dale were two furry rodent friends of Pluto? Let’s talk about chipmunks. The Eastern ...

Three stories above the Field Museum's exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum's mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie ...

These backyard visitors might cause more damage than you think. Chipmunks might be some of the cutest rodents to roam around outside your home, but you definitely don’t want them inside. While ...

From Alvin and the Chipmunks to Disney’s Chip and Dale, cartoonists have characterized chipmunks as one of nature’s most lovable rodents. Here are 11 illuminating facts about what their real-life ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Kwasi Wrensford describes the genus Neotamius as "elfin": skittish little squirrel-cousins with angular faces, pointy ears and ...

A chipmunk native to the Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico could be nearing extinction and the federal government hoped to step in. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week recommended ...

If you have been seeing more chipmunks near your yards and gardens this year, you aren’t alone.