The answer, according to the scientists who claim this is in fact new behaviour, lies in the sudden explosion of vole numbers ...

In nature, it really is survival of the fittest. Photos of a red squirrel and woodpecker have gone viral after they showed the two animals fighting each other for nuts. Karen Crawford took the ...

Ripe hickory nuts are plentiful this time of year, but the crop doesn't mature all at once. Nuts ripen in one section of ...

Flesh-eating squirrels which hunt down and devour voles have been spotted for the first time in the wild. Until now, squirrels were thought to be primarily vegetarian, cramming their cheeks full of ...

Picture a squirrel eating an acorn. It's holding the nut in its front paws. More specifically, squirrels handle their food ...

Every morning at about 4:30 a.m., Fenn Hathaway gets up before the sun, gathers his bags of peanuts and cracked corn and heads out to the New Haven Green to feed his friends, the squirrels. Hathaway, ...

DEAR WILDLIFE LOVER: I share your fascination with squirrels, which are abundant in New England. Gray squirrels are the most common, followed by red squirrels (which, curiously, are absent from Martha ...

I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

The Particolored Flying Squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger). Credit: Rejoice Gassah (CC By 4.0) Two species of flying squirrel in China's southern rainforests keep their nut stash high and dry by chewing ...

We're about a year into the pandemic, and for those of us who spent most of it at home, we've discovered parts of ourselves we never knew existed. For me, I realized I actually do like limes – for ...