Spotting a hoary marmot is a rite of passage for serious Pacific Northwest hikers. The charming and curious creatures can be found in the subalpine meadows of Washington’s North Cascades range ...

A Colorado zoo's field team was in for a surprise when they unpacked their truck and found that a wild marmot had hitched a ...

Did the groundhog see his shadow on Groundhog Day 2024? That's the wrong question. As a biologist, I wish more humans paid attention to this marmot's behavior.

For her dissertation at the University of Montana in the early 2000s, she initially set out to study how climate change could fragment marmots’ alpine habitat and ability to establish new colonies in ...

Olympic marmots are a unique species of large, ground-dwelling squirrels that live in alpine and subalpine meadows and rocky slopes, with most of their habitat falling within the Olympic National Park ...

A tenacious Vancouver Island marmot's long-distance quest for love may help explain how the endangered animals are bouncing back from near extinction.

A few fun yellow-bellied marmot facts from animalia.bio: These herbivores are short-sighted, but their ears and nose are finely tuned; they are also called whistle pigs, for one of the sounds they ...