The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi) might look like your run of the mill bushy-tailed rodent. But these squirrels are anything but ordinary. For the first time, they have been ...

“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 PEOPLE ...

The primary difference between chipmunk and squirrel species lies in their habitat and storage strategy. Squirrels are the ...

The City of Winnipeg is asking the province for permission to use pesticides to control ground squirrel population at several athletic fields, but animal welfare advocates argue the proposed methods ...

Have the squirrels gone nuts? Killer squirrels might seem like sci-fi, but squirrels in California have been observed hunting and eating voles for the first time, leading scientists to believe that ...

California squirrels can get a little carnivorous from time to time, according to a recently published study. Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California, ...

Worsening erosion of the Shell Beach bluffs has pushed the city of Pismo Beach to look at plenty of options to keep the coastal community stable — and now ground squirrels are in the city’s crosshairs ...

MOORHEAD — How does a group of Concordia College researchers plan to help revitalize a rare, fuzzy species in Minnesota? With a little “squirrelnapping.” The small, furry abductions are for a good ...

A California ground squirrel in Conta Costa County runs with a vole it hunted in its mouth. A study from UC Davis and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is the first to document widespread carnivorous ...