The first thing that stands out about the Surinam horned frog is its size. These rotund amphibians can grow to 8 inches in length and would cover a good-size tea saucer. They are found in ...

Members of the squirrel family, marmots are mountain specialists, feeding on grasses lichens and seeds. To film Himalayan marmots we traveled to the edge of the Tibetan plateau in the province of ...

For Vancouver Island's wild marmots, having more junk in the trunk may be the difference between life and death. And the research that involves feeding them biscuits just got an upgrade ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Olympic marmots under the Endangered Species Act. The rare marmots are found only ...

An endangered marmot sits on an outdoor scale on Vancouver Island in a handout photo. The equipment is part of research aimed to study whether larger and heavier animals have more babies.