New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, and one community is excited for a long-standing tradition surrounding a certain rodent.

Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia towns ring in New Year's Eve 2025 in unique ways. Here's how you can join in the fun.

This furry little guy is a muskrat. The semi-aquatic animal, classified as a rodent, is found all throughout North America and lives by rivers — like the Delaware — and marshes or lakes. They can grow ...

This time of year, I often see a muskrat gracefully swimming along the surface of our pond with a mouth full of greens. At a certain location, the animal dives down and enters its bank den with a ...

On Ash Wednesday—Feb. 22 this year— it is traditional for Roman Catholics to go to church, where a priest will put ashes made from burnt palms on their foreheads in the shape of a cross. The ritual ...

- The muskrat is about 20 inches long, including its 9-inch tail, and adults weigh 2 to 5 pounds. - Muskrats generally have a reddish-brown upper body with grayish-brown coloration farther down. - ...

Late winter on the marshes of Maryland's Eastern Shore is a soggy affair. Fog hides the stands of loblolly pines—practically the only green things growing at this time of year—and in the rain even the ...

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It’s muskrat love on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. The upscale residents of nearby Carroll Gardens have purebred dogs. And now the hipster houseboaters on the waterway have their own pet — a cute, upscale ...

The fur-bearing rodent used to be very abundant in the first half of the 20 th century, and harvesting muskrats for their meat and fur was a critical part of springtime subsistence activities. It was ...