Oregon wildlife officials are conducting a new statewide survey of beavers and their habitat, part of a plan to protect and recover the animals. The plan’s success largely depends on whether the state ...

England officials promised to reintroduce Eurasian beavers to the country. However, after a successful starter release in Dorset in March, reintroduction efforts have suddenly stalled. Despite 40 ...

Beavers are North America’s largest rodent and the second-largest living rodents after the capybara, which can be in South America. They weigh between 35 and 65 pounds, with the heaviest beaver on ...

Beavers secrete a special goo that smells like “musky vanilla”. It’s called castoreum. It’s a chemical compound found in the beaver’s ‘castor sacs’ and located under their tails. The goo itself is ...

In the movie Hoppers, an animal lover slips into a robot beaver body and joins a beaver colony. In real life, some researchers use robots, costumes, drones and other creative methods for studying ...

The industrious beaver—often dismissed as a pest—might be a powerful ally in the fight against climate change. A study published March 18 in the journal Communications Earth and Environment found that ...

Q. Whenever the subject of beavers comes up when I'm talking with my neighbors near Aiken, South Carolina, they insist that beavers are pests. I claim they do more environmental good than harm. What ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. When I became an observer of the beavers in my wild backyard, I already had a list in my brain entitled “Beaver Facts.” Fourteen years into the project ...