Looking out over the prairies of North America, you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a barren and lifeless land. But this habitat, the most threatened terrestrial ecosystem in the world ...

Grasslands encompass the savannas of Africa, the grasslands of Australia, the cerrado and campo of South America, the prairies of North America, and the steppes of Central Asia. Highly dynamic ...

These charismatic, rabbit-size rodents live on North America's prairies and open grasslands in only a fraction of their former numbers. Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens ...

For most of the Cretaceous, Canada’s prairie provinces were sitting deep underwater. A giant inland sea cut right across North America. Known as the Western Interior Seaway, it ran north to ...

Tribes had lived a largely nomadic life while following the herds across the prairies. At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains. Even in the early ...