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 ...

Seasonal diet selection in the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) was studied at two sites in Montana during 1991 and 1992. A linear programming model of optimal diet selection successfully ...

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 ...

What if you were told there was a completely natural way to stop your body from aging? The trick: You’d have to hibernate from September to May each year. That’s what a team of UCLA biologists and ...

Social marmots die younger than their more withdrawn counterparts, according to scientists who studied yellow-bellied marmots for over a decade. The scientists spied on the marmots through binoculars ...

A new study shows that aging slows to a crawl when yellow-bellied marmots hibernate. These large ground squirrels are able to virtually halt the aging process during the seven to eight months they ...

Scientists are spending this summer researching why the local population of yellow-bellied marmots -- those gregarious, burrowing rodents ubiquitous near the Spokane River -- are not only surviving ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The yellow-bellied marmot is one of Montana’s most visible alpine mammals. Hikers will note the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The date that yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) emerge at a site in Colorado has been used as evidence that climate is affecting ...

It’s not unusual to see yellow-bellied marmots while hiking in Montana. These large rodents can weigh about 3 to 5 pounds and measure more than 2 feet long. Early visitors to the West called them ...

• Montana doesn't have groundhogs, so Feb. 2 (Groundhog Day) doesn't mean much under the Big Sky. Groundhogs live in the Midwest and Eastern states. • We do, however, have two species of marmots, a ...

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 ...