Go to town with these iconic North American rodents. Learn about the complex underground societies these charismatic critters ...

Prairie dogs are an important food source for predators in the area. Also, their burrows provide shelter to other animals and they eat a diet of vegetation, keeping plants from overgrowing.

Find out why the black-footed ferret teeters on the brink of extinction. Burrow deeper into this mask-bandit's “business.” ...

To increase populations of the endangered black-footed ferret, scientists aim to save prairie dogs, a main food source. The biologists use drones and medicated peanut butter-flavored pellets to do it.

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Wild prairie dogs may soon get a dose of something extra in their daily diet: an oral vaccine against the plague. The same “Black Death” that devastated Europe during the Middle Ages is still ...