Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Alston’s singing mice have adapted to sing to express their ...
Neural wiring boost: Alston’s singing mice evolved triple the motor-to-auditory and vocalization brain connections, enabling precise turn-taking in song. Unique vocal tool: The mice rely on an ...
All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston's singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) ...
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that ...
Mice do more than just squeak when they want to make a noise. They can also sing. And the way they do it is different from most mammals that produce sounds by vibrating their vocal cords. When ...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee and colleagues find that songs and ordinary vocalizations both arise from the midbrain caudolateral periaqueductal gray (clPAG), seen ...
Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in ...
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