Online creator Derrick Downey Jr. opens up to PEOPLE about how his friendship with neighborhood squirrels changed his life and gave him the nickname the 'Squirrel Whisperer' Courtesy of Derrick ...

Out of 74 observed interactions between the two species, 31 involved the squirrels actively hunting the voles. Most of the time, the squirrels seized an opportunity to chase a vole across a short ...

A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of ...

Flesh-eating squirrels which hunt down and devour voles have been spotted for the first time in the wild. Until now, squirrels were thought to be primarily vegetarian, cramming their cheeks full ...

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 ...

Have the squirrels gone nuts? Killer squirrels might seem like sci-fi, but squirrels in California have been observed hunting and eating voles for the first time, leading scientists to believe ...

We think of squirrels as adorably harmless creatures, admiring their bushy tails and twitchy little noses and the way they cram their cheeks with nuts or seeds to bring back to their nests for later.

A California ground squirrel in Contra Costa County runs with a vole it hunted in its mouth. A study from UC Davis and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is the first to document widespread ...

When Yasmeen Matthews arrived at Kent State University as a freshman, she was convinced that the school's mascot was a black squirrel. It's not an entirely unreasonable thought at Kent State.

As we slunk along a wooded wetland border, I noticed movement in a nearby tree. A black squirrel! I was instantly transfixed, as almost all the squirrels where I live are of the ordinary namesake ...

AI is now being tested to protect the UK's endangered red squirrel population. The Squirrel Agent AI, which is being tested around the UK, detects different types of squirrels using their chins ...