In 1958, Disney released a wildlife documentary called "White Wilderness." One scene depicts a tiny, brown-furred rodent — a lemming — scuttling about in the Arctic snow. "There is an actual ...

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 ...

White Wilderness, the infamous 1958 Disney documentary on lemmings that won the Academy Award for footage of the furry creatures "jumping off" cliffs that was later found out to be completely ...

This thing about lemmings jumping off cliffs during migrations is made up. ... maybe even a cliff, though that seems conjectural. The group gets stopped there, and can accumulate on a riverbank, ...

Ben Kovic wants to quash any myths about lemmings. "One thing everybody seems to believe [is] that they jump off cliffs when they're abundant. They don't. That's Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit [traditional ...

The thing most people know about lemmings – their tendency to follow each other off a cliff – is not actually true (more on ...

NPR's Joe Palca reports on the myth of the lemmings... you know, the story about how these animals will commit mass suicide by jumping off a cliff. Turns out, it really IS just a myth. We find out ...

They knew that they had to jump off of that cliff. And everybody needed to go with them. In reality, ... has now jumped off the proverbial cliff, like lemmings into the pronoun sea.