I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

In nature, it really is survival of the fittest. Photos of a red squirrel and woodpecker have gone viral after they showed the two animals fighting each other for nuts. Karen Crawford took the ...

Squirrels have some mysterious behaviors. For instance, the reason these rodents run in front of cars is a defensive tactic that they use to evade predators (although it's no match for speeding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henry David Thoreau Many of our wildlife neighbors disappear in winter, either migrating, hibernating or largely staying hidden ...

Squirrels are famously forgetful in popular culture, yet field studies show they can relocate roughly 85 percent of the nuts they hide, a success rate that would put most human key-finders to shame.

MINNEAPOLIS — Have you ever lost your keys or phone in your own home? When it comes to finding things, squirrels may have a leg up on us. Diane in Red Wing emailed us wondering: How do squirrels ...

Everybody knows that squirrels love nuts, but every squirrel knows that some nuts are better than others. “Walnuts are at the top,” Harmony Dalgleish says. “But they take a lot of handling time. Red ...