Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

A study of the genetic basis of plague immunity in prairie dogs has broad implications for conservation. From white-nose ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A potential "die-off" of prairie dogs has been reported in northern Arizona, prompting public health ...

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the West’s primary ecosystem engineers.

Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog towns across the dry grasslands of North America. They may be adorable, but these little mammals are fierce fighters with.

Prairie dogs may have the most extensive vocabulary of any animal other than humans. They can actually distinguish, linguistically, between a short human in a blue shirt and a tall human in a ...

A prairie dog trap is set next to a burrow in the Heil Ranch area near Lyons on Tuesday. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) Originally Published: June 13, 2023 at 4:54 PM MDT.