The Gophers announced on Monday that Darius Taylor, Koi Perich, Anthony Smith and Drake Lindsey will all join P.J. Fleck at ...

Gophers, also called pocket gophers, can be any one of the 38 species that belong to the Geomyidae family. These outdoor rodents spend a lot of their time underground in search of food.

When Kansas State College hired Freddie Hisaw as an assistant professor of zoology and mammalogist in 1919, he "didn't even know what a mammalogist was. It turned out to be a fancy name for ...

Former Gophers defensive back dies while running Brooklyn Marathon Charles "Ace" Rogers, of Iowa City, Iowa, played for the Gophers in 2015 and appeared in three games. Credit: AP ...

Minnesota Gophers women's basketball coach Dawn Plitzuweit is mourning the unexpected death of one of her former players at the University of South Dakota. Bridget (Arens) Schumacher, 30, died ...

Taiye Bello, a record-setting rebounder for the Gophers women’s basketball team, has died, according to a gofundme.com page set up by her family. She was 26. A cause of death was not announced.

A neighborhood in south Glendale is infested with pocket gophers. Uncoordinated trapping efforts are only getting neighbors so far. A neighborhood in south Glendale is infested with pocket gophers.

Online, she found a device called a GopherHawk, which traps and humanely kills the rodent. Over a few months, she set about 500 hundred traps and has caught 60 pocket gophers.

No matter the look, the gopher mascot has served the university well, evoking school pride and spirit, stated a 2013 proclamation issued by then-Gov. Mark Dayton.

Relaxin’s discoverer is gentle, publicity-shy Professor Frederick Lee Hisaw, 52. He found the hormone during long, painstaking studies of the sex life of the pocket gopher, a small prairie ...

Bello played with the Gophers for four years and ended her career as the school's all-time leader in offensive rebounds. Bello, who graduated from Michigan's Southfield-Lathrup High School in 2016 ...