The long-tailed weasel kills by leaping or pouncing on an animal, severing major blood vessels in the region of the throat or the spinal column at the base of the skull with a series of quick bites.

A secretive, hard-to-spot weasel-like animal, the fisher, has made a noticeable return to Pennsylvania after being deemed extinct in the state. A trail camera in Westmoreland County captured a fisher ...

When James Gunn first introduced Weasel in the 2021 feature film "The Suicide Squad," he knew that the DC Comics character - either an animalistic human or a human-like animal, depending on your ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

The fisher is a member of the weasel family that has a long body with fur that is primarily dark to chocolate brown. Further down on this mammal’s taxonomy, its scientific name is Pekania ...

Despite its name, the fisher doesn't eat fish or live by the ocean. This shy, plush-furred member of the weasel family inhabits mature forests and munches on everything from birds to small mammals to ...

Wild weasel kits are remarkable among young mammals in that they possess the ability to drop into a torpid state when their parent is out hunting. Their heart rate drops and they go into a deep ...