There about 41 species endemic to North and Central America. In the United States, gophers, most often called pocket gophers, are found in the central plains from Canada south to Texas and ...

A study finds that roots grow deeper than typical into southeastern pocket gophers tunnel networks, raising the possibility that the rodents cultivate their food. The pocket gopher, immortalized as ...

A southeastern pocket gopher finds a place to dump soil from its ongoing excavation. Digging is so energy intensive, the roots gophers find along the way don’t provide enough food. But by ...

Of all the other endemic creatures, we picked this one because we just love the mental image we get from hearing “pocket gopher.” According to a 2023 article from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...

Reviewed Work: North American Fauna, No. 8. Monographic Revision of the Pocket Gophers, Family Geomyidae (Exclusive of the Species of Thomomys) by C. Hart Merriam ...

74, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 517-536 (20 pages) Five new species of Aphodius (dyspistus, tanytarsus, hubbelli, platypleurus, and pholetus), collected in the burrows of pocket gophers (Geomys pinetus ...