Every April, in the mountainous forests of Colorado, a fuzzy creature with a belly the color of buttered toast emerges from its snow-covered burrow. For the past eight months, the yellow-bellied ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that changes in seasonal timing can increase body weight and population size simultaneously in a species -- findings likely to have implications for a host of other ...

A new study published this week in the journal Nature says yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado are getting bigger in size and population. Climate change may be the reason. Robert Siegel talks to UCLA ...

Longer summers are causing large mountain rodents called marmots to grow larger and get better at surviving, according to a 33-year study published today in Nature. The research, carried out by ...

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, a wildlife rescue expert ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The array of island-like mountains that characterizes the Great Basin has long been a model system for studying the effects of past and ...

Burn carbon—it’s good for the marmots. Not a slogan you’re likely to see at the next climate change rally, but according to a new study published in the July 21 Nature, it might just be true—at least ...

LAWRENCE — This week, one of the world's foremost scientific journals will publish results of a decades-long research project founded at the University of Kansas showing that mountain rodents called ...