A new study from two Museums of Natural History uncovered that two-thirds of dog breeds have detectable wolf DNA, from chihuahuas to Arctic sled dogs.

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

This is the hilarious moment a coterie of prairie dogs try to escape their enclosure in an animal park in New Castle, ...

A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes.

Ranchers considered black-footed ferrets and their main source of food, prairie dogs, pests due to their tunnelling activities, and exterminated them through poisoning. By the 1900s, settlers had ...

The black-footed ferret exhibit at American Prairie’s National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Mont., just opened to the public on Nov. 14. When I went to Montana in September to visit American Prairie ...

NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute is home to scientists conducting research on topics ranging from infectious disease ...

American Prairie is excited to announce the official opening of a new permanent exhibit at the National Discovery Center, ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

The discovery was made during an eviction in Passaic, when animal control officers entered the home and found the dogs trapped in filth, covered in matted fur and surrounded by waste, the ...