When you envision a black bear, you may picture our state’s second largest mammal as being a big, meat-eating killer. Technically, black bears are omnivores. Omnivores eat plants and animals. But did ...

March is an amazing month in the Northland. It is a time of the greatest (deepest) snowpack. Snow has covered the ground for the last 100 days, adding new snow regularly. It is a month when we ...

This Journal of Raptor Research issue focuses on movement ecology—how and why raptors move. This can include classic ...

The snow cover means the tiny Northern saw-whet owl, which is smaller than a robin, has had difficulty hunting its preferred diet of mice, voles and shrews, says Randy Lauff, a biology instructor at ...

This year, at least six animal and insect species moved to the Extinct category of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Photo by Katie Finch Melting snow uncovers tunnels made by creatures in the subnivean zone, such as shrews and voles. Snow. While it’s still early in the winter, here in Chautauqua County we are ...

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What is it about William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” that attracts progressive, feminist directors who hope to tame its inherently violent sexism and then spend their entire show fighting ...

What can be learned from a shrew — the tiny, furry, high-strung creature that needs to eat the equivalent of its body weight in food every day to survive? More than you might expect, including ...