Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil may be the world’s most famous groundhog, but he has a cousin in the Inland Northwest who ...

Yellow-bellied marmots prefer grasslands and meadows within the Sierra Nevada. Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. No derivatives or adaptations ...

Today, however, we are going to be covering a common distinction between groundhogs and another common species of marmot ...

Flatiron Freddy became a Groundhog Day weather prognosticator more than a decade ago. He was enjoying a peaceful afterlife in ...

Move over, Punxsutawney Phil – one Colorado rodent is making his own prediction for winter. Flatiron Freddy, a top-hat ...

Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department has announced that Flatiron Freddy — the city’s stuffed, top hat-wearing ...

The evolutionary benefits of play are unclear, since it uses energy and may put animals in the way of predators or other threats. Play in yellow-bellied marmots has a social purpose, the authors of a ...

UCLA biologists are changing that by creating the first cumulative adversity index for yellow-bellied marmots, based on 62 ...

Flatiron Freddy saw his shadow on Sunday at Chautauqua Park, which means that the Boulder County region can expect six more ...

In the early 2010s, Flatiron Freddy existed peacefully as a deceased, stuffed yellow-bellied marmot – a close relative to the groundhog – in Boulder’s Flagstaff Nature Center, but one winter ...

Groundhog Day is almost here and although we do not have groundhogs in the Treasure State we do have some close relatives like the marmot, ground squirrels and prairie dogs.