A southern flying squirrel trapped as part of a Minnesota study. The squirrel's big eyes and ears give it keen senses at night. (Anna Mangan, Natural Resources Research Institute) ...

Red squirrels are seen in far smaller numbers in England than their grey counterparts Groups working to protect the remaining pockets of red squirrels in England say they are "devastated" after an ...

Ravenous California ground squirrels have been observed killing and eating small rodents, marking the first widespread carnivorous behavior documented among the species. The squirrels, rodents ...

The predators? Squirrels, the populous mammals who have long been known to mostly eat nuts, seeds and plants. While studying ground squirrels in Northern California this past summer, biologists ...

Earl the Squirrel has become a popular character at Universal Orlando during the Holidays and is considered the Resort’s official mascot for the Christmas season. What started as a lighting mishap and ...

Forest researchers in north-central Minnesota are bringing the little-analyzed world of an elusive night creature into the light. There is a dearth of state research about flying squirrels, a ...

The episode finally explains how Weasel, previously believed to have killed 27 children, was actually wrongly accused. “I didn’t know the specifics of it, but I always knew that it wasn’t ...

Out of 74 observed interactions between the two species, 31 involved the squirrels actively hunting the voles. Most of the time, the squirrels seized an opportunity to chase a vole across a short ...

California ground squirrels hunt, kill and eat voles, reveals a new study documenting evidence of widespread carnivorous behavior among squirrels. A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts ...

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“We had never seen this behavior before. Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people," said one scientist Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...