The muskrat's teeth project past its lips so it can gnaw and swallow underwater without choking. In addition, the muskrat's ears and nose have special flaps that seal out water when it dives.

When I start rubbernecking, I'm looking for any trace of interesting beast or fowl that might be out and about in the fields and wetlands I pass by. In particular, I do a great deal of ...

Feb 18, 2021 — Can you close your lips behind your teeth? No, you can't. Because you're not a muskrat. Bet you can't close your ears when you dive underwater either.

"The jaw, the teeth, everything was so much bigger than most mammal fossils you see out of the Cretaceous rocks around there. I thought, 'That's huge,'" said John Foster, curator of collections at ...

A stuffed muskrat will drop down a zip line at midnight on New Year's Eve to ring in 2024 in downtown Princess Anne in one of the more exotic Eastern Shore traditions.

A 72 million-year-old fossil found near the Utah-Colorado border led to the discovery of a new muskrat-sized mammal species named Heleocola. The discovery was made by paleontologists from multiple ...