After more than a decade studying California ground squirrels, Jennifer Smith felt she had a solid understanding of their ...

After its spotlight-stealing stroll across Yankee Stadium's outfield wall, the squirrel slipped and ran off Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...

“It appears to be a squirrel that is leucistic, the result of a genetic mutation resulting in a partial loss of pigment,” an FWC spokesperson said. According to the FWC, it receives reports of ...

Engineers have long designed robots that crawl, swim, fly, and even slither like snakes. But no robot has ever matched the ...

She used squirrel monkeys for much of her research, subjecting them to mild but frequent electrical shocks, such as 0.75 milliamps for 30 s, repeated 20 times in 1 hour. She justified her ...

Until now, the California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) had been described as an animal that ate mostly acorns and grass seeds. They’ve been observed eating bark, flowers, leaves ...