Depending on who you are, squirrels might be adorable or a nuisance. Regardless, they can be strange, but those weird behaviors all serve unique purposes.

I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It’s likely ...

As scatterhoarders, Sciurus carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel) usually rely on food they buried during fall to survive cold winter months. However, the range of this species includes areas of the ...

Marilyn Hart held an 8-week-old Eastern gray squirrel in her left hand and a syringe filled with squirrel milk formula in her right. She used her teeth to pop the top off the syringe while the ...

Individual eastern gray squirrels are all about food. They consume about two pounds of food per week. That is about 100 pounds in a year. They mainly are vegetarians, eating various nuts and other ...

Cute, fuzzy and generally loveable, squirrels also can be pesky, garden-digging, tree-stripping rodent hoodlums. It’s all in the eye of the property holder. Bob Brawdy Tri-City Herald Last weekend I ...

While it is likely that eastern gray squirrels would have found their way to this campus eventually without help, their true origin offers a unique tale to think about the next time you are squirrel ...

Depending where you live in North America, you might think only one or two types of squirrels exist — the ones in your backyard. It might come as a surprise to learn about different squirrels you ...

The invitations were already sent. Three billboard were scheduled to go up. Snags, Lancaster County’s most famous squirrel, was turning 10 years old. Acorn Acres Wildlife Rehabilitation, where she ...

The “Squirrels are not endangered” letter (Our Readers’ Views, June 1) may cause confusion in calling for the Western gray squirrel to be removed from the endangered species list. The Western gray is ...