Specific brain regions involved in triggering thirst are strongly suppressed in hibernating ground squirrels, even during the ...

Discover how ground squirrels survive winter without food or water through remarkable biochemical adaptations.

Burrowing owls used to nest in Alameda, but sightings on the island are much rarer now. Marjorie Powell highlights these ...

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, without ...

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 ...

Flying squirrels have small rounded heads, large black eyes ... Beechnuts, acorns, hickory nuts, and other large seeds which southern flying squirrels begin storing in late summer in their nests, the ...

Prior research has shown that the thirteen-lined ground squirrel, which lives on the North American plains, hibernates from six to eight months every year during the winter.Research has also found ...

As winter approaches and the temperature drops to -30C across parts of Canada, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel nestles one-metre underground in a grass-lined burrow for six months of the year.

State officials are asking the public's input on whether to grant the species protection under the California Endangered ...

They concluded that the first squirrels were arboreal and that ground squirrels evolved from there. The eastern gray and fox squirrels co-evolved with the walnut tree family, which includes hickory ...