Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil may be the world’s most famous groundhog, but he has a cousin in the Inland Northwest who ...

Yes, I admit it. I am a nut about nature. Not just the big amazing birds and animals such as eagles and bears, but the small critters too. I realized this (again) on my recent trip to Colorado. I ...

I had stopped along a steep mountain road and just below me were several yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). You might be more familiar with their eastern cousin the woodchuck.

Yellow-bellied marmots prefer grasslands and meadows within the Sierra Nevada. Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. No derivatives or adaptations ...

Today, however, we are going to be covering a common distinction between groundhogs and another common species of marmot ...

Flatiron Freddy became a Groundhog Day weather prognosticator more than a decade ago. He was enjoying a peaceful afterlife in ...

Move over, Punxsutawney Phil – one Colorado rodent is making his own prediction for winter. Flatiron Freddy, a top-hat ...

Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department has announced that Flatiron Freddy — the city’s stuffed, top hat-wearing yellow-bellied marmot — will return this Sunday to make his ...

The evolutionary benefits of play are unclear, since it uses energy and may put animals in the way of predators or other threats. Play in yellow-bellied marmots has a social purpose, the authors of a ...

UCLA biologists are changing that by creating the first cumulative adversity index for yellow-bellied marmots, based on 62 ...

Hailing from Boulder, dapper-dressed stuffed marmot Flatiron Freddy has made winter predictions for more than 12 years, ...

Sunday was Groundhog day. We found out if we will have a an early spring or a long winter. To get our answer, NBC Montana's Jason Hurstwent looking for Bitterr ...