Follow the story of how beavers have earned their role as New York's state mammal by contributing to the economy and ...

If you wanted to flaunt your wealth today, you might carry a Gucci bag and strut around in a pair of Louboutins, or simply opt for finer clothing made of cashmere and silk. But if you were a rich ...

Courtesy Dr. Joshua Samuels To help you learn more about our state animal, Think Out Loud compiled this list after talking to Frances Backhouse, author of "Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty ...

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

A new wetsuit material from MIT traps pockets of air in a fur-like pelt, keeping the wearer warm in the water. It works just like a beaver’s fur coat, which was the rubbery material’s inspiration. The ...

“Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America” (W.W. Norton & Co., $29.95), by Eric Jay Dolin. Beavers are big rodents – some over 39 inches long – with floppy tails, teeth ...

It's rare that our national animal, the humble beaver, gets the spotlight. But the industrious mammal may soon be hailed as a gnarly hero in the surfing world. And no, this isn't another story about a ...

The Haughton Green-Denton coat of arms has more fur on it than you can shake a stick at, including sable, ermine and beaver. The beaver sits on top of the heraldry and certainly caught my imagination ...

It’s hard to believe that beavers, the largest rodents in North America, were once on the brink of extinction after mountain men traversed across our undeveloped nation in search of new land and ...

The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.