California ground squirrels are as commonplace as the seeds, acorns, and grains they’re often seen nibbling. Yet, scientists in Northern California recently uncovered an astonishing fact about ...

Some East Bay ground squirrels have given up eating only seeds and plants and now are choosing to hunt and eat other rodents. A team of scientists spent 12 years in Briones Regional Park near ...

In pop culture, squirrels are often seen as jerky, excited critters on the hunt for nuts to stuff themselves with and tuck away for later. But... Scientists document carnivorous squirrels in ...

Major climatic and tectonic episodes can drive speciation; rising sea levels can close land bridges, for instance, while a rise in temperature can promote the expansion of grassland at the expense of ...

their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science. The results show that supplemental feeding can produce ...

Red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) thrive in the north of England and Scotland and occupy a patchwork of highly fragmented woodland habitats. In the September 21 Science, Marie Hale and colleagues from ...

In recent years the National Trust has been communicating with visitors to the area that giving the squirrels extra food is unnecessary. Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science the ...

Interesting facts about squirrels As per Live Science, squirrels have an omnivorous diet and in addition to eating plant-based food, they also include eggs, small insects, caterpillars ...

The predators? Squirrels, the populous mammals who have long been known to mostly eat nuts, seeds and plants. While studying ground squirrels in Northern California this past summer, biologists ...