Twelve prairie dog pups are now on display at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, officials announced Friday.Pups are born blind and hairless and do not make an appearance outside of the burrow until they are ...

Prairie dogs shape vibrant grassland ecosystems, and support biodiversity. Protecting these tiny architects is vital to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexican gray wolf M1477 on Jan. 26, 2024, after being released south of Hannagan Meadow, Arizona. M1477, an 8-year-old male and ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Exciting news from the Potawatomi Zoo — they have baby prairie dogs! The zoo shared a video of one of the babies. The babies, called pups, will live their first six weeks ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

Prairie dogs play an important role in nutrient cycling, adding to their list of beneficial services as ecosystem engineers. Earth is made of cycles. If you think back to high school Earth science ...

Prairie dogs start barking bloody murder and scramble for their burrows as a hawk glides fast and low over the colony. The emergency broadcast gives the rotund fur balls ample warning. For the raptor, ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

Why did the ornithologist strap a taxidermy badger to a remote controlled car and drive it around the prairie? To interrogate the secret world of animal eavesdropping in the grasslands, of course!

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The endangered Mexican Gray wolf remains an ongoing conservation topic in Arizona, and during a tour by the Society of Environmental Journalists April 24, wolf advocates, wildlife ...