I am always looking for an excuse to learn and write about squirrels, so jumped at the chance to visit the latest arrivals at the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick in York, Maine — orphaned baby ...

Coming across a baby squirrel alone in the wild or even in your backyard can stir up a strong desire to help. These little creatures appear helpless, especially when they are very young. But feeding a ...

In a nondescript warehouse in Washington, D.C., wedged between a community garden and the Metro train tracks, more than a dozen baby squirrels fill cages in an uncomfortably warm room. A noise machine ...

Baby squirrels are some of the smallest mammal babies in the animal kingdom, but they don’t remain helpless for long. These adorable, intelligent rodents can be found in a wide range of habitats all ...

Red squirrels have returned to Aberdeen city centre, reversing a retreat north dating back to the 1970s. Tests confirm a red squirrel found dead at the village of Kirkbean had contracted squirrelpox.

With writer Sue Pike away, this is a reprised edition of Nature News from August 2023. I put up my bird feeders last week and started thinking about what to do about the squirrels that usually take ...

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science. The ...