During the Pleistocene Epoch, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna—large animals that dominated the continent’s landscapes. These creatures, some of which are now extinct, played ...
They evolved around the end of the Ice Age when whitetail deer from what is now the Eastern U.S. pushed past melting glaciers to meet and breed with the blacktails of the West Coast, creating a ...
Goldfarb highlighted how beavers' impact reaches far and wide — from supporting species like the boreal toad, which breeds in beaver ponds, to helping juvenile cutthroat trout thrive in the ...