Winter is an especially great time to go hunting for animal tracks in the snow. In summer, animals’ prints can be difficult to spot on packed dirt trails. But snow preserves them, allowing hikers to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The morning after a fresh snowfall, you’ve probably once walked out of your home and spotted paw prints meandering around your yard. What animal could have trekked through ...

Birds and mammals moving about areas covered with fresh snow leave information behind. Prints in snow can identify the animal that made them, but they can also reveal the animal’s direction of ...

A couple of February's ago, I was walking into my barn when I noticed I was not alone. A set of tracks in an inch of fresh snow had proceeded me. I suspected they were made by a woodchuck so I decided ...

Researchers can now extract environmental DNA from paw prints left in the snow by threatened species, such as polar bears and lynxes, and use it to monitor their populations. Polar bears and lynxes, ...