Small Weasel-Like Animals Are Taking Down Big Cats. Two elusive predators, the lynx and the fisher, battle to the death in the snowstorms of New England.

There are many animals in the weasel family, including polecats, ermines, stoats, and ferrets. ... Cover any small spaces like air and heating ducts that weasels can get into.

A short-tailed weasel in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Jacob W. Frank, NPS/FlickrAt the United Nations biodiversity conference that opens in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations aim to create a ...

A petition to list a large, weasel-like animal under the U.S. Endangered Species Act could severely curtail logging, development and road construction in California forests if approved by the U.S ...

Fishers, omnivorous members of the weasel family, were completely eliminated from Pennsylvania during unregulated hunting and massive deforestation in the late 1800s. At the time, the last ...

The weasel-like animal was pushed out of Ohio in the mid-1800s, when many of the state’s forests were converted to farmland. But now, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Over the summer, a weasel-like creature once extinct in Pennsylvania was caught on a trail camera in Westmoreland County. Now the camera operator says the rare sighting "wasn ...

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (KDKA) — A trail camera in Murrysville picked up a rare sight in Westmoreland County. PixCams said one of their trail cameras captured photos of a fisher, a weasel-like animal ...

Polar bears and wolves may get the glory, but small predators like weasels, foxes and their cousins play outsized ecological roles. And many of these species are declining fast.

They say it’s a sign the weasel-like animal could be reproducing here again, for the first time in more than a century. Last year, Ohio biologists collected a pregnant fisher killed on the side of the ...