After three decades of covering Nova Scotia politics, Jean Laroche and his wife, Catherine, sought some distance from his old ...

Mink might look cute in photos, but they aren't very nice. They are fast, clever and deadly predators, taking down critters bigger than themselves — ...

Coyotes and badgers are known as rivals, but sometimes the unlikely pair works together to hunt burrowing rodents.

Far below our feet, animals are quietly shaping the ground into labyrinths that function like villages, towns and even cities. I look at 11 species whose underground engineering rivals human suburbs, ...

In this latest Caprock Chronicles feature, Chuck Lanehart explores the history of jackrabbit stew and other fine pioneer cuisine of the Texas plains.

Nature's architects build without blueprints! From beaver dams to termite mounds and ant cities, complex structures emerge as animals respond to local cues. Beavers listen to water, termites sense air ...

It's not just humans that build villages – so do other animals. And they can be so enormous they're visible from space ...

Nestled along the Illinois River in Marseilles, Illini State Park is the kind of place that makes you wonder why you’ve been ...

It's not every day a prairie dog goes viral for villain behavior, but then again, Chunk isn't your average rodent. Captured ...

Pennsylvania has their Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog who has forecast weather every February 2 for generations, so it seemed ...

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

"He smol but he bad," is how employees at the Texas Wildlife Park in Mountain Home, located 17 miles west of Kerrville, describe a young prairie dog going viral on social media for his tiny stature, ...