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This furry little guy is a muskrat. The semi-aquatic animal, classified as a rodent, is found all throughout North America and lives by rivers — like the Delaware — and marshes or lakes. They can grow ...

MONROE (AP) - Most of the menu read like a typical buffet, with soup, salad, turkey, pork and potatoes. But the first offering at the annual Muskrat Dinner in Michigan was distinctive: a pot of the ...

This time of year, I often see a muskrat gracefully swimming along the surface of our pond with a mouth full of greens. At a certain location, the animal dives down and enters its bank den with a ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) -- Under a flapping, rusting tin roof, in an aging shed near the marsh, is one of the most curious pieces of machinery in Dorchester County. Almost 100 years old, it is also one of ...

Late winter on the marshes of Maryland's Eastern Shore is a soggy affair. Fog hides the stands of loblolly pines—practically the only green things growing at this time of year—and in the rain even the ...

This is the startling moment a group of fishermen are left getting more than they had bargained for when a giant muskrat bursts through an ice fishing hole. The footage, which was captured in New ...

On Ash Wednesday—Feb. 22 this year— it is traditional for Roman Catholics to go to church, where a priest will put ashes made from burnt palms on their foreheads in the shape of a cross. The ritual ...

It’s muskrat love on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. The upscale residents of nearby Carroll Gardens have purebred dogs. And now the hipster houseboaters on the waterway have their own pet — a cute, upscale ...

GOLDEN HILL, Md. — Contestant No. 1 sashayed down the catwalk, her hair bouncing in blond curls, and smiled a radiant beauty-queen smile. She picked up a furry dead rodent about the size of a football ...