Lemmings, as everybody knows, breed incessantly, migrate by the thousands every four years and finally rush over cliffs in a panic, hurling themselves into the sea in a dramatic case of population ...

Why are lemmings famous for running off cliffs? I’m assuming this is an urban myth. But where does the idea of suicidal lemmings come from? —Owain Evans Let’s begin our investigation with a little ...

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The Endless Thread team reveals how a deceptive Disney documentary from the 1950s shaped the way we think about lemmings and established the nature documentary style. Ben Brock Johnson and Dean ...

One myth deeply entrenched in our language is that of the "Lemming Suicide Plunge" - where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be ...

If you know anything about lemmings, it's probably their reputation for plunging off cliffs in acts of mass suicide. But if the puffy little rodents could talk, they'd tell a different story: that ...

Who was Walt Disney, really? We all know bits and pieces of Walt Disney The Legend—he was maybe an anti-Semitic union-buster, he killed untold lemmings to make a documentary conform to a myth about ...

There is a superstition called "water suicide by group"LemmingScientists explain why such a strange superstition was born about Tabby Ridge. Mr. Thomas McDonough, an Alaska State Wildlife Biologist, ...

They may have a reputation for committing suicide, but it appears that lemmings actually have a powerful survival mechanism. Biologists have found that the furry Scandinavian rodents use their ...

The faction of House Republicans leading the charge against the Affordable Care Act amid a partial government shutdown have been referred to as lemmings by those who believe they are committing ...