According to superstition, if Phil comes out of his burrow on Groundhog Day and sees his shadow, it will scare him enough ...

As flurries fall on B.C.'s South Coast, blanketing areas with snow, it seems fitting that Vancouver Island marmot Violet predicts six more weeks of winter.

As February rounds the corner, all eyes will be on Punxsutawney Phil in anticipation of whether he’ll see his shadow on Groundhog Day. According to superstition, if Phil comes out of his burrow ...

Many mammals are true hibernators and remain dormant through the winter, but a lot of them stay active, at least to some degree.

This article was originally published Feb. 2, 2007. While it might not have the retail significance of Christmas, Halloween or Administrative Professionals’ Day, Groundhog Day remains perhaps ...

Learn how to repel groundhogs, with some of the best garden hacks for pest control. Groundhogs (Marmota monax), related to ground squirrels and marmots, in the family Sciuridae, are in the order ...

The groundhog (Marmota monax), a.k.a. the woodchuck, is celebrated in folklore and cinema. Each year on February 2 America’s most most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, becomes a weather ...

We could piggyback on the Pennsylvania Feb. 2 Groundhog Day hype by naming our groundhog as the one and only “Meeker ...