Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a new predator. Can these promising conservation programs save them?

The National Water Vole Database Project (NWVDP) is the only project of its kind in the UK. By bringing together and mapping water vole and mink data, we can inform conservation efforts to give ratty ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...

January, we have often had enough snow so the seasonal total is about 45 inches. This translates to several inches of snow on the ground. With the cold temperatures associated with this month, the ...

What I did see, though, were tracks. I found what I’m pretty sure were fox tracks on a drift and vole tracks in the snow down along the Rosebud River. The fox looked to be just travelling along ...

They could have a hard time. I have seen many vole tracks in swamps where they appear to do better among the vegetation. The grouse, hare and voles, among others, may be having a tough time this ...

Karen Wils photo A little vole pops up in his tunnel in the snow on a sunny January day. ESCANABA — Squeak, squeak, squeak — mouse, vole and shrew all hidden snug and warm beneath a quilt of white ...

Fresh tracks in the snow give sleuths insight into how animals survive extreme temperatures, including where they eat and where they go to stay warm.

In an exceptional discovery, palaeontologists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire. The site ...