The?eastern gray squirrel?(Sciurus carolinensis) we see around us is a native North American tree-dwelling rodent. It is the most common wild animal we observe, active during the day and found in a ...

Up and down the hallway, the lights were out in all the classrooms and laboratories, along with the refrigerators, air conditioning units and lab equipment. I guess I’d better go and get it. One of ...

The Western gray squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by wildfires and habitat fragmentation. Courtesy of Jennifer Becar with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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North Carolina chose the gray squirrel as its state mammal because it is widespread, adaptable, and familiar to residents across the state. Schoolchildren helped influence the decision in 1969, ...

Meet the southern flying squirrel, a small North American native that glides tree to tree, hoards nuts, and hunts cicadas from its hollow forest snags.

The government is supporting research into a contraceptive "pill" for grey squirrels to curb the damage these rodents inflict on Britain's woodlands and its native red squirrel population. This forms ...