The long-tailed weasel resembles the ermine but has a longer tail, 9.5-16 cm (3.6-6.3 in) in length and greater than 44 percent of the head-body length. This is the only other member of the weasel ...

Link Olson holds the skull of a short-tailed weasel that a mountaineer donated to the University of Alaska Museum of the North. (Photo provided by University of Alaska Museum of the North ...