New research shows prairie dogs play an outsized role in nutrient cycling, adding to their list of beneficial services as ecosystem engineers. Ann Batdorf, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — When deciding to manage prairie dogs by using gas or poison, they run the risk of hurting other creatures that were probably in those burrows, which could affect the ecosystem, ...

A recent die-off of a large number of prairie dogs in southwestern Colorado has some health officials suspicious that the animals died of plague. The La Plata County Public Health Department launched ...