Just take Potato, the prairie dog, and his Calico Cat sibling in this video, for instance. For whatever reason, Potato is in ...

Prairie dogs shape vibrant grassland ecosystems, and support biodiversity. Protecting these tiny architects is vital to the ...

Prairie dogs rely on highly specific alarm calls to survive in exposed grassland ecosystems. Research shows that their vocalizations can encode information about predator type, size, and even human ...

WASHINGTON – 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 dogs ...

Everybody knows that, when a groundhog sees its shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter; lesser known is that, when a prairie dog sees its shadow, it means there will be a ...

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 ...

A once-lost prairie dog is now taking the spotlight at Abilene Prairie Dogs baseball games, thanks to a new partnership with the Big Country Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Wilson Wahoo, a prairie dog ...

Thaxton, a third-year animal science major from San Antonio, first met Tucker in May of 2025 when visiting a Lubbock pet ...

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.

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

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 ...