Our features editor took a deep dive into the cute and chunky critters to understand why the Internet has fallen for them. He ...

Fat Bear Week has become a beloved annual tradition, drawing millions of fans who tune in each fall to celebrate the hefty brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Now, Colorado is ...

Protests and petitions planned amid growing concerns over impact of climate crisis on numbers of Alpine rodent ...

Annnnd there's a winner in the first-ever Fat Marmot Week! The competition was among eight yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado ...

Alpine marmots rest closely together in a grassy mountain meadow while one feeds. Marmots are highly social animals, and ...

GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — Last winter was tough for marmots living high in the Colorado mountains, where researchers say two-thirds of one population died while hibernating because of insufficient snow ...

Researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have demonstrated, using a map of the potential distribution, the ...

Alpine marmots have survived the ice age and exquisitely adapted to cold climates. However, these furry animals were found to be the least genomically-diverse species. A study by a team of ...

Shooting marmots is permitted from September 1 each year in France, however, animal rights activists do not approve and are ...