Last year, ecologists placed trail cameras around Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia. According to Smithsonian Magazine, the scientists hoped to capture footage of the smoky mouse, ...

I LOOKED THOUGH the microscope at the insides of a dead smoky mouse, and could barely believe my eyes. Thousands of tiny smoke particles lined its lungs. But the mouse had been kept more than 50 ...

Nine mice from the smoky mouse species, native to Australia, are the first animals to die due to bushfire smoke inhalation The mice were in a breeding program outside Canberra, 50 kilometres from ...

The Australian smoky mouse was already endangered, and after the Australian fires many feared it was extinct. But camera traps recently spotted the species in seven different locations.

The threatened species team of ecologists set up the cameras to document the smoky mouse, another critically endangered species.

The genome of the tiny smoky mouse has been fully sequenced and scientists say this has far-reaching consequences for other threatened animals and the resurrection of extinct species.

The critically endangered Smoky Mouse has been discovered in the bushfire ravaged Kosciuszko National Park where it was feared the population had been wiped out.

Temporary smoky mouse enclosures at reintroduction site. Image credits: A.Pike / NSW Department of Planning and Environment The mouse eats seeds, fruits and flowers and historically has been a main ...

David Paul, Museums Victoria, CC BYThe native Australian rodent Pseudomys fumeus, named smoky mouse for its colour, was already fighting off extinction when the 2019–20 bushfire season hit. The ...

The Australian smoky mouse was already endangered, and after the Australian fires many feared it was extinct. But camera traps recently spotted the species in seven different locations.

The native Australian smoky mouse, named after its grey-tinged fur, has become the first known species to be killed by bushfire smoke alone, researchers from Charles Sturt University (CSU) have found.