State officials are weighing listing the tiny birds as an endangered species, a decision that could have big implications for the farming and renewable energy-focused county.

They are the number one animal digging holes in yards. These small, burrowing mammals are experts at moving through the soil, making them efficient excavators. While they can be helpful in ...

They had stubby tails, small ears, and eyes like gophers, but, unlike most burrowing mammals, they had the super long, quickly growing front teeth of modern beavers. Visitors to Agate Fossil Beds ...

Other animals benefit from their labors. Burrows may be shared by snakes, burrowing owls, and even rare black-footed ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs in their own dwellings. Family groups (a male ...

They are also killed by rodenticides and collisions with wind turbines and cars. The owls rely on burrowing mammals such as ground squirrels to excavate underground burrows for nesting and roosting.

According to Li Quanguo, Li Ruoshuang's advisor, these extinct early mammals had diverse lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling, and burrowing to gliding through treetops like modern flying ...

They can live their whole lives in the hottest and driest place on Earth without drinking a drop of water, surviving only on moisture in the small insects, reptiles and burrowing mammals they feed on.