ANN ARBOR, MI - National awareness of University of Michigan’s “chonky” squirrels is perhaps at an all-time high. Nowhere is the evidence more apparent than on the Nov. 12 national ABC ...

Who are they? Squirrels. As climate change is making extreme heat events more common, these bright-eyed and bushy-tailed critters are "splooting" to cope. Splooting is behavior some animals use to ...

Traditionally known for stuffing their cheeks with nuts, squirrels can be carnivorous — though recorded instances of the rodents hunting and killing other live vertebrates are rare, with few ...

This little squirrel just came out of a lab freezer, but it's not dead. And scientists like Sarah Rice want to know why. Sarah Rice, University of Alaska Fairbanks: There's no cardiac arrest.

By Mélissa Godin Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too. According to a paper published on Thursday in ...