When hairy mammals feel something on their back, they’ll pull out the “wet dog shakes”. If you’ve ever been within the splash zone of a dog just getting out of the pool, you’ll likely ...

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 ...

If there was one fault we could pick out with our canine companions, it’s the fact that they don’t live long enough. One day, ...

This somewhat dog-like sabertoothed predator is described ... “Gorgonopsians are more closely related to mammals than they are to any other living animals,” Ken Angielczyk, a study co-author ...

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, ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

Three men have been arrested and charged with hunting a wild animal with a dog. Norfolk Police's Rural Crime Team said it received a report by a member of the public that three men were seen ...

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, ...