Loraine's a prairie dog that lives indoors, a fact that may surprise you! Even more surprising? She's part of a duo, spending ...

In Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ the Ingalls family goes through some of the toughest times in their lives in the ...

Every now and then, colonies of prairie dogs are wiped out by plague, an infectious disease most often associated with the Black Death of the 14th century. Plague doesn't usually kill people these ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the US studying the behavior of black-tailed prairie dogs at a local zoo have discovered they behave differently, kissing and cuddling each other more when people are ...

Prairie dogs and groundhogs are incredibly similar animals, often so much so that people may think they are different names for the same creature! While that isn’t the case, it’s easy to see how it ...

Prairie dogs may have the most extensive vocabulary of any animal other than humans. They can actually distinguish, linguistically, between a short human in a blue shirt and a tall human in a yellow ...

A virus similar to smallpox apparently jumped from an imported African rat to pet prairie dogs, infecting at least four people — possibly dozens — in the disease's first appearance in the Western ...

Most people accept that animals kill other animals for food, to protect their young or to defend a carcass or other food stash—it’s the circle of life and all that. But new research shows that at ...

The first time it happened, it was over so quickly that John Hoogland almost missed it. It was a spring day in 2007. Hoogland was sitting in a two-meter-tall observation tower near Walden, Colorado, ...