These charismatic, rabbit-size rodents live on North America's prairies and open grasslands in only a fraction ... listening posts near exits, so animals can safely keep tabs on the movements ...

Protecting these regions will also benefit North America's Central Grasslands and the many associated grassland species that flourished there centuries ago. Once rivaling Africa's Serengeti in ...

Once the most abundant and widespread frog species in North America, leopard frogs were ... but will often venture into well-covered grasslands as well, earning them their other common name ...

In North America’s spring, a bubbly song burbles up from some grassy meadows, the song of the breeding male bobolink. It is a “bubbling, jangling warble with short notes on widely different pitches; ...

invasive species, and climate change, grasslands are being lost faster than they can be preserved. The map uses a binary red/blue color scheme to show the state of grasslands in North America.

Grasslands across the species’ range are plagued by multiple threats that ... Southern Plains bumblebees are one of the largest bumblebees in North America and are distinctive for the flattened hairs ...

The prairies host more than 80 species ... types of grassland grasses include a much taller type called big bluestem, which grows with very deep roots in the wetter parts of North America.