Every ecosystem is complex and unique. In some places, specific plants, animals, fungi, or bacteria will have a dramatic ...

Saturday’s NHL Draft brought five Minnesota Gophers to their future professional teams. After the draft, the Gophers ...

Even without seeing a photo of the animal, a biologist might work out that Geomys bursarius—"earth-mouse with a pouch"—was a pocket gopher.

As a researcher at Kansas State Agricultural College in the early ’20s, Dr. Hisaw noticed a puzzling fact about the pocket gopher: the animal, for turning around in its narrow burrow, has a very ...

A plains pocket gopher as seen away from its normal burrowing home, similar to one seen recently. Note the large claws on the front feet and the small eyes and ears.

Gophers, also called pocket gophers, can be any one of the 38 species that belong to the Geomyidae family. These outdoor rodents spend a lot of their time underground in search of food.

Pocket gophers, which are native to western Washington, can move about 2,000 pounds of soil to the surface every year, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades later, their short visit still has visible, and vibrant, effects.

Pocket gophers are a type of burrowing rodent known for their extensive tunnels. Jerry Kirkhart via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 In May 1980, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake accompanied by an avalanche ...

One pocket gopher can move about 18 pounds of soil per year. They’re integral to a healthy ecosystem. One researcher reported a “wheezy call” and “teeth gnashing.” ...

Gophers have long, yellow-orange front teeth, small eyes and ears and short tails. Five gopher species live in California. The most common is Botta’s pocket gopher, T. bottae.