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Castoroides (Latin: "beaver" (castor), "like" (oides) [2]), or the giant beaver, is an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Two species are currently recognized, C. dilophidus in the Southeastern United States and C. ohioensis in most of North America.
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The Tule River Indian Tribe and state wildlife crews reintroduced nine beavers to their natural habitat in the Sierra. Beavers, back on tribal land after 100 years, could aid California's fragile ...
For the first time in 200 years it’s great to be a beaver in California. In a show of unanimous bipartisan support, the state Legislature voted this summer to pass Assembly Bill 2196, which ...
The hastily assembled show that morning included analysis from Today news anchor Jim Fleming, who once worked in NBC's Moscow bureau, and veteran NBC foreign correspondent Hans von Kaltenborn. Alexander Kerensky , a former leader of the Russian Provisional Government , was awakened and brought to the RCA Exhibition Hall to add his commentary on ...
One species of beaver occurs in California. American beaver, Castor canadensis (harvest) Order: Rodentia Family: Geomyidae. Five species of pocket gophers occur in California. Botta's pocket gopher, Thomomys bottae; Western pocket gopher, Thomomys mazama; Mountain pocket gopher, Thomomys monticola; Northern pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides
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Skull of a beaver. Castoridae is a family of rodents that contains the two living species of beavers and their fossil relatives. A formerly diverse group, only a single genus is extant today, Castor. Two other genera of "giant beavers", Castoroides and Trogontherium, became extinct in the Late Pleistocene.