DENVER (KDVR) – A group of six “bratty” marmots “embarrassed” several Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers who were trying to film their release back into the wild, according to a post on social media ...

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 ...

In her debut as a book author, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to examine events that have shaped Pacific Northwest wildlife in an effort to provide a deeper sense of place for those who ...

“Take only pictures, leave only footprints,” the old saw goes. But one Colorado hiker brought something much bigger, and furrier, home from a day on the trails last month. Cole Wilson was on his way ...

Every year, scientists fan out across Colorado’s Upper East River Valley to count the yellow-bellied marmots that make their home in rocky meadows bordered by aspen, fir and spruce trees. Over the ...

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 ...

Longer summers are causing large mountain rodents called marmots to grow larger and get better at surviving, according to a 33-year study published today in Nature. The research, carried out by ...

Olympic marmots can spend up to eight months a year hibernating, emerging when the weather warms to forage for food, fatten up, and otherwise go about their business. If you’ve traveled in the alpine ...

Got an email from Slice reader Karen Botker. “I got to introduce my grandkids to the Wonderful World of Marmots yesterday. Apparently there is a large population of them living around the apartments ...

An unusual study of an animal social network suggests that ending up as the butt of unfriendly interactions could be in part inherited. The study, in yellow-bellied marmots, gives the first look ...

Marmots. If you’re unfamiliar with this creature, marmots are kinda like squirrels, but the size of a house-cat. In Canada, they’re heavily endangered, and one cryptocurrency anti-influencer is ...