Yes, I admit it. I am a nut about nature. Not just the big amazing birds and animals such as eagles and bears, but the small critters too. I realized this (again) on my recent trip to Colorado. I had ...

For the past 15 years, Dan Blumstein has been trying to get inside the heads of marmots. This is not an easy thing to do, as some marmots are total head cases. Blumstein is a professor of animal ...

Yes, I admit it. I am a nut about nature. Not just the big amazing birds and animals such as eagles and bears, but the small critters too. I realized this (again) on my recent trip to Colorado. I had ...

How would you like to eat and sunbathe all day during the summer and then sleep through the cold winter months? The yellow-bellied marmot of the high regions of Colorado and the West do just that. At ...

If you’ve been fortunate enough to get up high this fall — traveling above tree line, that is — nature has treated you to an especially spectacular display of colors in the high-Alpine tundra. As your ...

EAGLE COUNTY — Marmots and pikas are neighbors in the rocks on the alpine tundra, but their morphology, appearance and survival strategies are dramatically different. Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota ...

If you look up “groundhog,” you will be referred to woodchucks, but when you go there, you will not be told whether they chuck wood or what, exactly, chucking wood means. You will be further referred ...

“A rare wildlife sighting on the campus of the Columbia River Maritime Museum!” was posted Sept. 12 on the museum’s Facebook page, along with the photo shown. “Curator Jeff Smith reached out to the ...

Environmentalists are suing the Trump administration to protect an animal found only on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. The Olympic marmot lives in mountain meadows of Olympic National Park. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - A yellow-bellied marmot that was spotted in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood in June was finally found and captured at a school in nearby Noe Valley on Wednesday.