Twelve prairie dog pups are now on display at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, officials announced Friday. Pups are born blind and ...

Another prairie dog species, the white-tailed prairie dog, lives in the western mountains. These rodents do not gather in large towns but maintain more scattered burrows. All species hunker down ...

Photograph of two juvenile black-footed ferrets periscoping from a white-tailed prairie dog burrow in Shirley Basin, Wyo. Juveniles are almost fully grown by the time biologist initiate their ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...