The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two beaver species in the world; the other is in Eurasia. It is the largest rodent in North America and it has many remarkable traits. It ...

The North American beaver, an often misunderstood and maligned aquatic rodent, builds dams with mud and sticks, which turns streams into valuable wetland ecosystems. Beaver ponds are necessary ...

In this exhibit, you can explore the history of horses in the American West. Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30–40 million years ago and were small, ...

Goldfarb highlighted how beavers’ impact reaches far and wide — from supporting species like the boreal toad, which breeds in beaver ponds ... during the North American fur trade in the ...