The Mount Graham red squirrel faces "a significant risk of extinction," according to a University of Arizona biologist who monitors them. A captive-breeding program is being contemplated to head off ...

Eastern gray squirrels may appear to be routine backyard wildlife, yet in Kentucky, they hold formal recognition alongside ...

California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi) might look like your run of the mill bushy-tailed rodent. But these squirrels are anything but ordinary. For the first time, they have been ...

The Mount Graham red squirrel population in Arizona has risen more than expected, according to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish. The latest survey shows an increase of about 89 squirrels since ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital and conservation center, said Monday it recently admitted an orphaned northern flying squirrel for rehabilitation. The young female ...

Think Wild, the Central Oregon wildlife hospital and conservation center, has taken in a female orphaned Northern flying squirrel for rehabilitation. The squirrel was found July 20 on a trail at ...

The smoggy, litter-swept stretch of the Cross Bronx Expressway leading to the Throgs Neck Bridge is not a place you’d expect to find a police checkpoint for illegal hunting. But each fall, it becomes ...

Sitting in my campsite at Goblin Valley State Park, I saw an antelope ground squirrel standing erect on its back feet, which ...

The Mount Graham red squirrel continues its climb back from the brink, seven years after a wildfire nearly wiped it out. The endangered rodent’s numbers have jumped by more than 61% over the past year ...

Wildlife agencies counted 232 squirrels on Mount Graham, about the same as a year ago, which is good news during a drought.

Most North Carolinians see gray squirrels every day as they race along fences, leap between oak branches, or raid backyard ...