WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...

Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

Historically, the Great Plains was home to vast expanses of wildlife: 60 million bison, in herds so large they filled the view from horizon to horizon; 250 million acres of prairie dogs, as many as 5 ...

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States, extending from Montana to Texas and New Mexico to ...

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from burrows and sharp barking, you likely have wandered into a prairie dog town.

Black-tailed prairie dogs eat vegetation, create burrows and clear ground. Do those habits impact the spread of wildfires? Researchers from the University of Arizona are calling for more ...

DENVER (CN) — A divided 10th Circuit on Monday reversed a lower court’s approval of a Thunder Basin National Grassland management plan that removed protections for the black-tailed prairie dogs needed ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — When deciding to manage prairie dogs by using gas or poison, they run the risk of hurting other creatures that were probably in those burrows, which could affect the ecosystem, ...