Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

The animals were taken from a home on Ashton Street after the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office alerted county officials that ...

Arizona wildlife officials have released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets in an attempt to rebuild the population at the ...

Chuck the Prairie Dog lives in Palm Beach, Florida, and delights his hundreds of thousands of social media followers by documenting his activities on social media. As a pet prairie dog ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Ensuring a vital population of black-tailed prairie dogs is key to the survival of the federally protected black-footed ferret, which the Fish and Wildlife Service has reintroduced into Wyoming.

Officials with Clay County Animal Services say they rescued more than three dozen animals from a home Wednesday morning ...

DESCRIPTION: The black-tailed prairie dog is a daytime-active, medium-sized rodent, ranging in length from 12 to 15 inches, including a three- to four-inch tail. Its weight ranges from 1.5 to three ...

Plague-fighting techniques and cloning have fuelled the comeback of the critically endangered black-footed ferret.

Some residents feel the changes to the park are unnecessary and are upset about the disruption of prairie dogs in the area.

The Department Wild Life Conservation took a safe approach to help city of Lawton relocate the prairie dogs from the Elmer ...