When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours. The ...

Two years after Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, a team of researchers helicoptered in a gopher to the ash-covered landscape. Decades later, the activity of that single gopher burrowing for a single ...

DEAR JOAN: For the first time, gophers are destroying our vegetable garden. A trapper killed five gophers but has been unable to get one – or more – continuing the destruction. He can’t find tunnels ...

MINNEAPOLIS — He's a quiet guy with a big head and big teeth, and you see him every day at the University of Minnesota. In this edition of Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen takes us through the long ...

The gophers were grumpy, but they understood the assignment. Brought by helicopter to a barren landscape with pumice stones the size of marbles and golf balls, the animals did what they've always done ...

Boasting more than 80 distinct ecosystems, Florida is a biodiversity hot spot. In fact, more than 4,000 animal species are native to the Sunshine State. In the heat of summer, a growing number of ...