October is Squirrel Awareness Month, an opportunity to shed light on all the mammal offers the local ecosystem. University of Minnesota student Charlotte Devitz, who is pursuing a doctorate in ecology ...

For six to eight months of each year, thirteen-lined ground squirrels don’t leave their small, subterranean dens. Beneath North America’s grasslands, they wait out the cold season hibernating ...

He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his ...

The thirteen-lined ground squirrel doesn’t drink during its winter hibernation, even though systems throughout its body are crying out for water. Madeleine Junkins and colleagues now show that ...

Living at another house I would hear flying squirrels somehow drop from the attic down through the laundry drop. I’d find them and they welcomed me to release them into the woods. They learned ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto One Oklahoma man was arrested and another was issued a citation for hunting squirrels in a public park, police said. Officers responded Nov. 23 at 3:45 p.m. to reports of ...

Today, we bring you a fun yet tricky challenge: a mouse is cleverly hidden among a crowd of squirrels. Can your sharp eyes and quick thinking spot it in just 5 seconds? The image above is no ...

Whiskers help the AI identify what is - and isn't - a red squirrel An artificial intelligence (AI) tool which has been trained to tell the difference between grey and red squirrels could be "an ...