Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Top view of Phlox's body as she was recovering. Squirrels covered in wart-like growths are showing up in backyards in several ...

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...

When most people imagine paleontologists at work, they likely envision researchers investigating giant dinosaur fossils or a long-frozen woolly mammoth. Sometimes, however, the best snapshots of ...

An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon shows Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from their preserved burrows and ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths, bison and saber-toothed cats. By Kate Golembiewski During the ...

Savvy Squirrel is the mascot for the latest government campaign to get people investing, rather than “squirrelling away” their money in savings accounts. But there is something you should know about ...

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The e-cigarette scourge is has become so virulent that even the squirrels are apparently getting hooked on vaping. In a viral video circulating online, a gray squirrel is seen toting an automated ...

In 2017, a wildfire raged across a drought-sick mountain in Southern Arizona and nearly wiped out a subspecies of red squirrel found nowhere else on the planet. In the aftermath of the Frye Fire — ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would ...

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