It’s official: Minnesota’s state fossil is the giant beaver, an extinct creature the size of a small bear that roamed around the Twin Cities more than 10,000 years ago. Lawmakers had approved the new ...

Agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency are insurance — an umbrella policy with a nationwide risk pool that helps to partially cover catastrophes that are more than local resources can ...

Meet the evolutionary hipster that beat Portland to weirdness by 30 million years. We’ve just found North America’s oldest beaver fossils. They’re rewriting everything we thought about these ...