"If you try to touch them, you risk being scratched, you risk being bitten." Concerned resident captures 'reclusive' animal ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Kristyn Schulte, a ringtail biologist with Sacramento City College, is working to better understand where the ...

These huge members of the weasel family swim by propelling themselves ... and must be successful often to meet their daily intake quota. Each animal may eat six to nine pounds of food per day.

A fine coat of blond fur barely covered her pink body. I have watched a wild weasel raise her kits from birth and I follow their daily lives via cameras hidden in purpose-built weasel habitats in ...