Grey squirrels, or Eastern grey squirrels, primarily live in the Eastern half of the U.S. and southern Canada. There is also a healthy population in the U.K., where they were imported in the 19th ...

When arctic ground squirrels hibernate for the winter, they can lower their body temperatures to freezing levels and stay dormant for up to eight months. Researchers at the University of Alaska ...

Science has made like Cool James at right and knocked some squirrels out (squirrel-punching being a little known hobby of LL Cool J). Only they did it with chemicals instead of a boxing glove. The ...

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It recently came to my attention that squirrels don’t hibernate. This information, delivered by AI against my will, shook me to my core. It was a gentle shake, but a shake nonetheless. I was Googling ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife crowned its winner of 'Fat Squirrel Week,' but how fat is 'Chunkosaurus Rex,' really?

Maybe she has the right idea, the arctic ground squirrel. Sniffing the chilly air, looking up to see the first stars of the season, she has decided to check out. A few weeks shy of fall equinox, the ...

The ground squirrel and the Syrian hamster, two rodents that hibernate in the winter, do not feel cold in the same way as non-hibernators, such as rats or mice. Researchers have discovered that ...