Red squirrels are entertaining and remarkable little mammals. Fleet-of-foot and extraordinary climbers, their specific habits ...

Do squirrels just randomly retrieve whatever they sniff out, or do they actually remember where they place this precious stash? A growing body of research suggests that they do remember.

Wild red squirrels can offer scientists a chance to better study the role that early-life environment plays.

Indiana is home to four different types of squirrel species: the Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray Squirrel, American Red Squirrel, and Southern Flying Squirrel. Eastern Fox Squirrels are the ...

Scientists studied 1,144 wild North American red squirrels in the Canadian province of Yukon, creating a weighted early-life adversity index that analyzed six different negative events that ...

Red squirrels and gray squirrels are the two squirrels we usually worry about at our feeders this time of year. Chipmunks, the smallest members of the squirrel family, aren’t around in the winter.

Red squirrels that gambled more reproductively outperformed their more cautious cousins, even if there were higher costs in the short term.

This photo shows a red squirrel on the lookout for territory intruders. (Credit: Erin Siracusa) (CN) — As neighbors go, the devil you know may be better than the one you don’t. Take the North American ...

In 2001, a wildlife rehabilitator named Christy Hargrove decided squirrels deserved a little respect. So she founded National Squirrel Appreciation Day.

Ohio’s other species of squirrels, including the American red squirrel, fox squirrel, and the southern flying squirrel, can also be white or even black.

As far as I can tell, the only native tree squirrel in Idaho is the American red squirrel. These are the little guys we encounter while camping in the mountains and who seem permanently peeved at ...

As far as I can tell, the only native tree squirrel in Idaho is the American red squirrel. These are the little guys we encounter while camping in the mountains and who seem permanently peeved at ...