ORANGE COUNTY, Calif.— As the Trump administration steps back from protecting imperiled animals, the Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition to protect the Pacific pocket mouse under ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Pacific pocket mouse, one of California’s smallest and rarest native mammals, has moved one step closer to permanent state protection. Last week, the California ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Pacific pocket mouse a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, granting ...

A local species of mouse once thought to have been completely wiped out by human encroachment and habitat degradation has been reintroduced to a site on Camp Pendleton. The release is part of a joint ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is partnering with other organizations to revive a mouse species that used to thrive near the California coast. According to a May 30 news release, the zoo, ...

If there was a category for low maintenance, free-living and inconspicuous rodents, then one group that comes to mind are pocket mice of the family Heteromyidae. The family name translates as ...

The endangered Pacific pocket mouse has been the subject of a 12-year breeding and reintroduction project to help save the species. Photo: Ken Bohn San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance The San Diego Zoo ...