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 ...

Minnesota is home to two varieties of the small mammal we simply refer to as rabbits. In Duluth we are in the midst of the overlapping ranges of those two animals. Their appearance is similar enough ...

Known as the varying hare, the snowshoe hare changes color in the winter by developing a new outer coat of white fur. Triggered by changes in day length, the snowshoe hare gradually sheds its ...

Snowshoe hares are part of the leporidae family and have evolved certain traits to help them survive against their predators. One of these traits is the ability to change its fur color depending on ...

December gave us a different final month of the year than what we are used to. We recorded an average temperature about 26 degrees Fahrenheit. That's more than 10 degrees above the normal of nearly 15 ...

The snowshoe hare is one of approximately 20 animals in the world that turn white in the winter, and it’s one that faces some serious concerns here in the Keystone State due to climate change and loss ...

It’s one of approximately 20 animals in the world that turn white in the winter, and it’s one that faces some serious concerns here in the Keystone State due to climate change and loss of habitat over ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these larger hind ...

Native to the Scottish Highlands, these color-changing mammals thrive in tough winter conditions. But now there’s less snow. A hare blends into a snowbank in Scotland’s Monadhliath Mountains. The ...