For Wisconsin’s snowshoe hares, climate change now ranks as an even bigger menace than the bulldozing, paving and other destructive things people have done to northern forests. Habitat loss as humans ...

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there’s a killer rabbit that takes out three knights in one bloody scene. It’s hilarious because rabbits are so innocuous — or at least they used to be. New ...

One of the many things I love about winter is the snow and the ability to track the animals that live in our backyards. It’s such an adventure to be able to go outside and discover who has been ...

Friends that live up on Boreas Pass Road have a motion camera that videos many creatures that “go bump” in the night by their back deck. Recently its camera revealed a creature that goes “hop” in the ...

Behind the wheel of his boxy red Ford F-250 truck — complete with crimson-carpeted dashboard — L. Scott Mills sipped his watery coffee and headed east. It was 18 degrees outside on a dim Missoula ...

The mountain hare is rarely seen in the wild. It lives in the higher regions of the Alps and is famous for its beautiful white winter coat. Now, however, climate change and winter tourism are ...

This year, a biological force of nature bigger than a bull moose lives in the boreal forests of North America. It’s most visible around dawn and twilight. That’s when the biggest animals of the ...

It’s mid-February, and Parks and Rec hikers are headed up from Crow Hill Road to Lawson Meadows. The skiers soon disappeared, leaving the snowshoe-ers to plod our way up. The lead hikers got lucky — a ...

Baby hares, called leverets, are born looking like miniature version of their parents – fully furred, eyes open, and pretty much ready to begin hopping around. They are able to live on their own only ...

The effects of climate change often happen on a large scale, like drought or a rise in sea level. In the hills outside Missoula, Mont., wildlife biologists are looking at a change to something very ...