"Poppy the Prairie Dog is an irresistibly cute and playful prairie dog who loves to explore and share her adorable antics.

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

Dear EarthTalk: "Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days?" – Joseph P., via email ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.

It’s that time of year again. It’s almost time to start feeding the Gunnison’s prairie dogs in Santa Fe. Between October and April, you may not see the Gunnison’s prairie dogs, but they ...

One of Balunek’s most recent videos, which she shared Friday, shows the two critters hunting prairie dogs together at a rock pile in northeastern Colorado. The coyote stands guard at the rock pile, ...