Underappreciated and far less seen than most Minnesota mammals, pocket gophers are nevertheless abundant wherever their ...

No. Dickens says they're more closely related to bats than mice. Sometimes people confuse moles with rodents like pocket gophers and voles, though. Dickens says voles and moles can be distinguished by ...

These aren't entrance or exit points; it's just dirt pushed out of the way when moles dig through the ground. Other animals, like pocket gophers, also dig tunnels, but their mounds include plugs where ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists ...

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A southeastern pocket gopher finds a place to dump soil from its ongoing excavation. Digging is so energy intensive, the roots gophers find along the way don’t provide enough food. But by ...

The Minnesota Golden Gophers saw their four-game winning streak come to an end as they suffered a disappointing 26-19 loss at ...

The Minnesota Golden Gophers have one of the oldest programs in college football. Founded in 1882, the Gophers were an original member of the Big Ten conference in 1896. Minnesota has won three ...

Aside from those four leagues, the Gophers had three additional athletes drafted to the Professional Women’s Hockey League this year. Connor Wietgrefe was the first Gopher drafted in the MLB this year ...

Lydia Grote had 11 kills to lead the Gophers volleyball team to a sweep of Rutgers on Friday in a Big Ten match in Piscataway, N.J. The 25-13, 25-22, 25-17 victory was the third straight for the ...

Star Tribune Gophers football writer Randy Johnson joins Rand for a breakdown of the red-hot Gophers.

Homeowners frequently confuse moles with pocket gophers or voles, but moles are meat-eaters, and produce tunnels that are more raised than other creatures’ tunnels. You must positively identify ...