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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squirrels don’t use a single strategy to recover their stashes. Every fall, squirrels stash thousands of nuts and other snacks in ...

The primary difference between chipmunk and squirrel species lies in their habitat and storage strategy. Squirrels are the ...

“We had never seen this behavior before. Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people," said one scientist Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

(CNN) – Some squirrels in California have an extensive palate. The furry creatures are traditionally known for feasting on nuts, berries and the like, but scientists recently noticed one type of ...

Squirrels are famously forgetful in popular culture, yet field studies show they can relocate roughly 85 percent of the nuts they hide, a success rate that would put most human key-finders to shame.

Though “ground squirrel” is actually a term that can be applied to anything from chipmunks to prairie dogs, it’s most often used to denote several animals that make their home in the Western U.S. and ...