Here we are in the dead of winter with nighttime temperatures falling into single digits, and despite this I am seeing signs that the breeding season for wildlife has begun. On Jan. 15, Mary Alice and ...

Quick Take 1968 legislation mandated the Eastern Gray Squirrel as the official game species to preserve frontier history. The ...

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The Western gray squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by wildfires and habitat fragmentation. Courtesy of Jennifer Becar with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

Most North Carolinians see gray squirrels every day as they race along fences, leap between oak branches, or raid backyard bird feeders. This familiar acrobat is more than just a neighborhood nuisance ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Western gray squirrels have been reclassified from threatened to endangered under Washington's endangered species act, according to a vote by the Washington Fish and Wildlife ...

Gray squirrels in the U.K. may soon be given oral birth control medication in an attempt to keep the invasive species at bay, as part of a government plan. Gray squirrels, the common bushy-tailed ...

Up and down the hallway, the lights were out in all the classrooms and laboratories, along with the refrigerators, air conditioning units and lab equipment. I guess I’d better go and get it. One of ...

A pine marten that was teased by a squirrel into casing it in laps around a tree trunk shouldn’t feel bad. Squirrels evade ...

My six-year-old daughter jumped up and down with excitement, her eyes sparkling as she motioned toward the gray squirrel lying at the base of a cedar tree. “I got it! I got my first squirrel,” she ...