At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...

Before Chuck Stone wrote his first and only children’s book, he didn’t research the genre. “I wanted it to come out of me,” says Stone of the 32-page story he wrote in one afternoon. Stone’s book, ...

A squirrel trapped by a Pennsylvania couple is quickly becoming an Internet celebrity because of the strange color of its fur: purple. Percy Emert and his wife, Connie, were shocked to find the purple ...

Certainly, there is nothing notable about a gray squirrel, which is probably one of the most common mammals to inhabit Pennsylvania. But when a gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) takes on another ...

If your neighborhood has a lot of mature, nut-bearing trees, chances are you also see a lot of gray squirrels. Occasionally, you might notice a gray squirrel that isn’t gray. Is that a sign of disease ...

The sprightly anomaly was photographed by Mike Papas on a recent trip to Davenport to visit his in-laws, Dudley and Jean Priester, who live off Locust Street near the Davenport/Bettendorf border. Jean ...

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...