One of the treats of a snowy winter is wandering around looking for animal tracks. When I counted up the species for which we’ve found tracks, I saw that one taxonomic family was disproportionately ...

To track an elusive group of small carnivores, researchers in Europe are turning to an innovative camera-trap design. A new study from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that when it ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Meet the Mustelids' tonight? We’ve rounded up streaming and cable services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can choose your preferred way to watch. In ...

Mustelids are the most ecologically and taxonomically diverse family within the order Carnivora. From the tayra in the neotropics to the wolverine in the subarctic, they inhabit a variety of ...

Over 5-million years ago wolf-sized otters and leopard-sized relatives of living wolverines (members of the weasel family that look more like badgers than wolves) lived along the West Coast of South ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Mill Mountain Zoo’s educators, Katie Harlow and Kiana Nowall, are talking about Mustelids with 7@four. They are a type of carnivorous mammal with slender bodies, like weasels and ...

I attended an Envirothon training session this past weekend (I moderate an Envirothon team at my school). This is an international academic competition for high school students that focuses on ...

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New Zealand has decided to do something almost no other country has tried at a national scale. By 2050, the government wants the entire archipelago to be free of invasive mammalian predators such as ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the pathogenic virus that is responsible for the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This virus has claimed more than 5.6 ...