PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A new resident has moved in at Frick Park. The Pittsburgh Park Rangers have discovered a beaver has moved in at Nine Mile Run. They first spotted the animal about a week and a ...

Next time you pick up a vanilla candy, think twice. A chemical compound used in vanilla flavored foods and scents comes from the butt of a beaver. Castoreum comes from a beaver's castor sacs, located ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series examining the beaver.The beaver has an important place in American history and the history of the west. Much of the exploration of North America ...

One of the most misguided, counterproductive, and inhumane forms of wildlife management in the United States is the annual mass killing of beavers (Castor canadensis). Each year, tens of thousands of ...

If you have heard about the beaver anal gland and the story that follows it, then you must be wondering about the 5 brands that use castoreum in perfumes. In case you haven’t, let us explain.

Preference of beavers for tree and shrub species during the autumn food caching period was investigated in western Massachusetts. Cafeteria-style feeding experiments designed to test differences in ...