Winter is an especially great time to go hunting for animal tracks in the snow. In summer, animals' prints can be difficult to spot on packed dirt trails. But snow preserves them, allowing hikers to ...

Today, it is not uncommon for wild and domestic animals to share some of the same territory. Because of this, when people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paw print in baked mud at Joshua Tree National Park, likely from a coyote. Brad Sutton/National Park Service Your neighborhood ...

Animal tracks are a key component to successfully watching, scouting, hunting, tracking, and photographing different wildlife species. If you want to know where the animals are, you often need to ...

Experienced wildlife trackers will tell you that every animal will invariably leave the track of another species from time to time. Of course they’re not being literal, but speaking to the difficulty ...

One of the joys of getting out on the trail in the winter is that every movement leaves a track. While many animals migrate south for the winter, spend the cold months hibernating or even avoid chilly ...

Between trees, on paths, and at forest edges, animal tracks tell of a lively, mostly unseen nightlife. Mud and fresh snow act ...

Your neighborhood is home to all sorts of amazing animals, from racoons, squirrels and skunks to birds, bugs and snails. Even if you don’t see them, most of these creatures are leaving evidence of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Steven Sullivan, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) Your neighborhood is home to all ...