Chipmunks are rodents belonging to the family Sciuridae. They are native to North America, although another species, the ...

Oxenrider said there is over 20 species native or thought to be native in West Virginia with only two of them being venomous.

Q: I found this snake in my wife’s flower bed, where chipmunks are digging holes that dry out the roots. My question: Do snakes burp? — Robert Reeves, Madison ...

Have you ever spent countless hours tending to your yard or garden, only to have it destroyed by pesky little critters?

Gray squirrels also make sounds often heard in woodlands, but they have a throaty quality that doesn't suggest an avian ...

The survival of more than 3,500 animal species is in jeopardy thanks to the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. This threat applies to at least a quarter of the species in six ...

A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal kingdom. A novel analysis ...

New York is home to 17 snake species, three of which are venomous. The three venomous species are the timber rattlesnake, copperhead, and eastern massasauga rattlesnake, each with distinct ...

Take away these natural resources, and these icons of America will go extinct. For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has provided bedrock legal protection for nature’s most vulnerable ...

More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority.

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it. Fifty years ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out ...