New research suggests chipmunks and a type of mouse evolved stripes early in their evolution, which may have given them an advantage in outwitting predators.

The elusive striped chipmunk was spotted climbing a rock along a creek in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park on Feb. 3. (Sonoma Ecology Center volunteers Kent Iverson, Gretchen Paradis and John Hardman) ...

Scientists say they’ve found the genetic origin of stripes in chipmunks and other mice. They published their findings today in the journal Nature. Cute though they may be, rodents’ stripes are ...

The same gene also determines the stripe pattern of North American chipmunks, and the similar stripe patterns evolved independently in these two groups of animals, researchers report.

Chipmunks and other rodents’ light stripes are painted with a recycled brush, a new study suggests. A protein previously known to guide facial development was repurposed at least twice during ...

Further, the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) shares both the stripes and the mechanism with the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus), the researchers report today (November 2) in Nature.

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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes Joseph Bruchac, James Bruchac. Dial Books, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8037-2404-4 ...

New research suggests chipmunks and a type of mouse evolved stripes early in their evolution, which may have given them an advantage in outwitting predators.