The time has come for another installment of our Ohio Wildlife Series. This week we will feature an animal that some might be familiar with while others may not be, the muskrat. Many of you may have ...

Muskrats are a large, semi-aquatic animal belonging to the vole or lemming family, not the rat family. The name “musk” comes from scent glands near its tail, that gives off a strong “musky” odor.

Does anyone smell a rat? Despite a price tag that can reach $15,000 or so, a strutting season more or less limited to chilly weather, the pretty much continuous cost of care and confinement and the ...

There is an ever-present muskrat swimming around the docks at the far end of the road at Frisco Bay Marina. This furry aquatic animal is probably pretty safe from most predators, but if he were ...

The trouble with being in the rat race, comedian Lily Tomlin said, is that even if you win you’re still a rat. Such insults don’t seem to bother the common rat, the rodent version of which is also ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would make it easier to kill beavers and muskrats that are damaging roads. Wisconsin law allows the Department of Natural Resources ...