These mountains feed rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people along the Front Range. After the ...

They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are ...

A colony of beavers has saved the Czech government almost £1 million after completing a stalled dam project themselves. Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the ...

Scientists say artificial beaver dams could help protect fish, water quality, and biodiversity as climate change reshapes ...

The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once ...

A family of beavers made global headlines earlier this year when they built a dam exactly where authorities had been planning one in Czechia, saving taxpayers around CZK 30 million (€1.2 million).

No larger than 4 feet tall, beavers are nature’s star engineers—restoring landscapes and balancing ecosystems at will. Here are three incredible success stories where they accomplished what humans ...

Quick Take Oregon officially named the American beaver as its state mammal in 1969 after long informal symbolism. ...