Beavers are making a comeback in Oregon. No, we’re not talking about the beleaguered OSU football team—but the fuzzy, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The future of ecological harmony could lie in North America’s largest rodent — if we can learn to ...

In the next few minutes, we're going to tell you about an animal that has played a bigger role than any of us might have imagined in building this country, and I'm going to describe it the way our ...

They helped build our country and could hold the key to our future. Leila Philip, author of "Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America", joined us to share the importance of beavers on the ...

Fossilized remains of the giant beaver have been discovered in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, as well as in southern Minnesota. Science Museum of Minnesota It’s official: Minnesota’s state fossil is the ...

Transplant 25 pairs of beavers from their native North America to the southernmost part of South America, wait 61 years, and what do you get? Entire forests of 300- to 400-year-old trees wiped out by ...

Drawing from his 2018 book, “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter,” he explored their history in North America, their potential to combat drought, flooding, wildfires and ...