Sometimes, it’s the small things that make the biggest difference. Consider viruses. Or electrons. Or prairie dogs. That last one might seem like a bit of a stretch, but bear with me. A few weeks ago ...

Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not every day a prairie dog goes viral for villain behavior, but then again, Chunk isn't your average rodent. Captured on ...

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America’s Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America’s largest land mammal ...

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 ...

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 ...