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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For the past 15 years, Dan Blumstein has been trying to get inside the heads of marmots. Blumstein is a professor of animal behavior ecology at the University of California at Los ...

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 ...

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 ...