Early one August morning, on a rocky slope high in Montana’s Gallatin Range, biologist Chris Ray crouched on a boulder with a tiny, sedated furball in her hands. Ray has long, wavy salt-and-pepper ...

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you hear it ...

WLS Photo CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Ili pika, a rare mammal discovered in China, has a face like a teddy bear and ears like a bunny. The adorable animal is also endangered. Fewer than 1,000 Ili pikas may ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Looking to connect with something adorable this summer? The Oregon Zoo is recruiting volunteers to seek out one of the Columbia River Gorge’s fluffiest residents: the American ...

(CNN) — The tiny, adorable, Ili pika is extremely endangered. The teddy-bear-like mammal is native to a remote part of northwestern china. There are fewer than a thousand living in the Tian Shan ...

High up above timberline in and amongst boulders you can often see little brown furry creatures and hear little high pitched eeenncck sounds and a variety of squeaks and squeals they use to ...

If it was 7ft and weighed 400 pounds, it would probably have become a legend like Big Foot or the Yeti. Like those legendary creatures, the Ili (Ochotona iliensis) lives in some of the most ...

Most who have hiked a Colorado 14er would know the sound of their squeal, though the uninitiated might have mistaken it for a bird. But don’t be fooled. Those who have spotted what Colorado Mesa ...

Native to the Xinjiang region of China, there are only 1,000 of these tiny, cute creatures, known as the Ili pika, left. The species was photographed for the first time in more than 20 years on July 9 ...

Erika Anderson is sitting in silence on a rocky talus slope just off the McKenzie River Trail, scanning the landscape with binoculars. In the distance, a small squeak, like the sound of a dog toy, ...