The Olympic Marmot is a meaningful symbol of Washington's identity, particularly in an era of rapid environmental change.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Animal Control rescued a marmot that was caught in the engine compartment of a van this weekend. LAC responded to the report of a marmot that had caught a ride to ...

A yellow-bellied marmot that was spotted in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood in June was finally found and captured at a school in nearby Noe Valley on Wednesday, a wildlife rescue expert ...

Vancouver Island marmots are hitting the slopes in a race to save their species, which even wildlife conservationists call “unbearably cute.” The woodland rodent, a cousin of squirrels and groundhogs, ...

This story originally appeared on Canada's National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Vancouver Island marmots may just be the antidote required for the dystopian times we are ...

A Himalayan marmot. (Credit: Yuanqing Tao) How do animals live in the cold, oxygen-starved environments of the high mountains? Himalayan marmots — beaver-ish rodents of unusual size — may have an ...

They sleep all winter, seek out the morning sun and like to burrow underground. And although they hold the unenviable status of Canada’s most endangered mammal, Vancouver Island marmots are, if not ...

A couple from Mongolia has died from the bubonic plague after eating raw meat from a large rodent known as the marmot, RadarOnline.com has learned. An official from the World Health Organization in ...

A series of American postage stamps due out early next year featuring creatures whose populations are critically low in the U.S. and its territories will include one pretty adorable out-of-towner: the ...

LONGMONT, Colo. — Back in May, a Toronto family got quite the surprise when they found a marmot in their RV after driving home from their Aspen, Colorado vacation. "And it somehow made its way, five ...

Meet Austria’s young marmot whisperer. Eight-year-old Matteo Walch’s friendship with a clan of Alpine animals has spanned more than half his lifetime. “When we come, they run straight to him,” ...

When Williams Lake's Devin Rushton saw a marmot scamper into the undercarriage of her 2007 Mazda last week, she immediately ran out to try to get the critter away from the vehicle. That's because this ...