Dan Werb discusses his new book, 'Our Wild Familiars,' about how wild animals learned to thrive in cities. Plus, we pay a ...

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Learn why prairie dogs are ecosystem engineers, how they communicate, and why they are vital to North American grasslands.

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For generations, people have viewed the high-pitched squeaks and chirps in prairie dog colonies as simple alarm signals. When ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

The wolves’ diet mainly consists of large ungulates such as moose, caribou, deer, elk and wild boar but they are also known ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — A parasite commonly carried by foxes and coyotes that can infect domestic dogs and, in rare cases, cause severe illness in humans appears to have become established in the Pacific ...

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has revealed striking similarities in the ...

Fairfax County officials are warning residents in the Great Falls area to watch out for a potentially rabid coyote. The coyote reportedly attacked multiple pet dogs and at least one person in and ...

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