"It's just a happy thing to see - we should be hanging our heads in shame if we let the red squirrel fail," says nature enthusiast Pete Muldoon. As a volunteer in Formby's woodlands on Merseyside, he ...

Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further When Sam Beaumont sees a flash of red up a tree on his Lake District farm, he ...

Big Cypress fox squirrels released as a pair to reduce stress and support natural behaviors during return to the wild Two “rare and elusive” juvenile squirrels have a new home for the holidays after ...

Squirrels are capturing attention online with their cleverness and resilience. Their teeth grow continuously, and they support each other in winter. Their name comes from Greek words for shadow and ...

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Squirrels: Are they just rats with better PR? Be advised that this is not safe reading material for squirrel lovers, or even squirrel apologists. In my opinion, squirrels are worse than rats—smarter, ...

Have you noticed squirrels going a bit crazy this fall? I mean more than usual? I’ve been hearing a lof of people talking about the long, cold winter in store for us and they say they can tell because ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, covers health, medicine, wellness and science The idea of “zombie squirrels” may seem a bit nuts to you.

A PLAGUE of terrifying “zombie” squirrels has gripped backyards across America. Squirrels may look cute with their big bushy tails on a good day, but these ones have been seen covered with ghastly, ...

Long associated with the city of Kent and celebrated as Kent State University’s unofficial mascot, the black-furred variant of the eastern gray squirrel has quietly but steadily made inroads ...

DEAR JOAN: I recently found an almost ¼-inch hole in a drip irrigation line. I couldn’t figure out how it happened and my wife said it could have been a squirrel, of which we have many. Related ...

Thousands of saboteurs have reached Minot Air Force Base. They are known for their ability to tunnel underground, their stealthy nature and small size and the risk they pose to base infrastructure.