Twelve prairie dog pups are now on display at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, officials announced Friday. Pups are born blind and ...

Prairie dog towns, often mistaken for simple clusters of burrowing rodents, are in fact bustling underground cities teeming ...

A silent drama is unfolding across the American West, pitting ranchers against one of the region’s most iconic creatures: the ...

BOSTON (WPRI) — Those taking a trip to Franklin Park Zoo will be able to see a dozen new furry faces. Now that it’s spring, Prairie dog pups begin emerging from their underground burrows, and this ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days ... they support more than 130 other species such as burrowing owls and black-footed ferrets.

Postcards are for clichés: the CN Tower, Lake Louise, a Maritime lighthouse. They’re pretty, and don’t tell you much.

Prairie dogs, those chubby, barking rodents that pop in and out of burrow entrances, have developed what scientists consider one of the most sophisticated social systems in the animal kingdom. Their ...

But more than 150 grassland species depend on prairie dog "towns." The burrowing owl makes its home in abandoned burrows. Rattlesnakes, swift fox, eagles and hawks prey on prairie dogs ...