The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has been a cultural icon in Britain at least since the beginning of the 20th century, when Beatrix Potter penned a children's tale about Squirrel Nutkin, an ...

The English love their native red squirrels. The red squirrel was immortalized by children's author Beatrix Potter in the character of Squirrel Nutkin and is a ubiquitous figure in English arts, ...

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Janet Wickens insists that she doesn't hate all Americans. “Just the squirrels,” the Englishwoman told me recently. And just the gray squirrels. Janet is director of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust ...

The little gray squirrel from South Carolina that for almost two years has been at the center of a Pennsylvania court case was pardoned Friday by a three-judge Superior Court panel. The opinion, ...

Like other Beatrix Potter characters, Squirrel Nutkin is mischievous and downright rude. Unlike his “great many cousins,” Potter writes, Nutkin shows no respect to an owl named Old Brown and ends up ...

Oh, deer, can you bear watching the state Game Commission shoot itself in the foot? It appears it’s done so in the case of the fugitive alien squirrel. Barbara Gosselin, 65, of South Manheim Township, ...

THOSE brought up on Beatrix Potter, the author of “Squirrel Nutkin” and other long-loved nursery tales, may flinch; but Andrew Thornton, manager of the Budgens supermarket in the north London suburb ...

The aggressive North American gray (or grey, when it gets to England) squirrel is threatening to displace the English red squirrel. Immortalized in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and ...