When many mammals are sleeping during the winter, American beavers are actively courting, mating, and rearing offspring.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Utica Zoo has three new residents who could flood the whole place — with visitors. Cauliflower, Mustard and Tangerine, two ...

A beaver swims in a pond on the tundra. (Peter Pearsall/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Oregon’s state animal has for years been classified as a “predator” by the state fish and wildlife agency, and ...

Beavers have been spotted in Palo Alto’s Matadero Creek, the first time in 160 years. Courtesy Bill Leikam. When a baby beaver, called a kit, scampered in front of a trail camera along Palo Alto’s ...

Depending on who’s talking, beavers can be any of the following: unsung ecological heroes, nuisance rodents bent on wreaking havoc, cute creatures brimming with charisma — or a hunting target. Now ...