The San Diego Wildlife Center opened this week and its first official patient is so cute that the critter will be dearly missed if she can be safely released back into the wild. The accompanying News ...

Many people mistake them for baby squirrels - but they're actually much different. Chipmunks have distinctive reddish brown fur, a black stripe down the center of their backs and a set of two black ...

Chipmunks are so cute that an entire media franchise is modeled after them. Small and perky with pudgy cheeks, stripes down their backs and a flattened tail cocked straight up, we see them in our ...

• Ladybugs, preparing for hibernation, concentrate in vast numbers on Bear Mountain, Green Mountain and other summits in the foothills. Monarch butterflies leave for Mexico. Box elder bugs and other ...