Are there beaver secretions in your vanilla ice cream? News articles or food influencers on social media might have you believe that castoreum, a yellow, syrupy substance from the castor sacs near a ...

It's a myth that artificial vanilla flavoring comes from castoreum extracted from beaver castor sacs. Flavor chemists explain that artificial vanilla flavor is made from synthetic vanillin. Vanillin ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A new resident has moved in at Frick Park. The Pittsburgh Park Rangers have discovered a beaver has moved in at Nine Mile Run. They first spotted the animal about a week and a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Beavers secrete a special goo that smells ...

Seventeen years after the city completed its restoration of Nine Mile Run, fish, beavers and other wildlife have continued the work of improving the health of this wetland environment. Frick Park’s ...