They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are ...

A colony of beavers has saved the Czech government almost £1 million after completing a stalled dam project themselves. Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the ...

The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once ...

Scientists say artificial beaver dams could help protect fish, water quality, and biodiversity as climate change reshapes ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – government officials spend years planning a project, bogged down by permits, disputes, and paperwork… and nature waltzes in and does it better in record time.

A family of beavers made global headlines earlier this year when they built a dam exactly where authorities had been planning one in Czechia, saving taxpayers around CZK 30 million (€1.2 million).

No larger than 4 feet tall, beavers are nature’s star engineers—restoring landscapes and balancing ecosystems at will. Here are three incredible success stories where they accomplished what humans ...

Learn how the beaver helped build Oregon from territorial days to statehood and became its official state mammal.