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 ...