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 ...

The name “Fisher” likely comes from European settlers who associated the mammal with similarities to polecats, known as “fitch.” Over a period of time, fitch became fisher. Fishers are not ...

A mammal that was once considered eradicated from the state of Ohio is now colonizing again in the state, biologists say.