There are about 50 species of flying squirrels ranging across most of North America down into Central America, and stretching from Southeast and Northern Asia into Siberia and Scandinavia.

A furred membrane (patagium) extending between the wrists of the front feet and the ankles of the hind feet distinguish both species of flying squirrels inhabiting the Adirondacks. Flying squirrels ...

The deciduous forests of the eastern half of North America provide optimum habitat for the gray squirrel, but the range includes portions of the mixed forest in southern Canada. This species in the ...

The endangered Mount Graham red squirrel was classified as endangered in 1987, with population numbers ranging from 35 to 550 ...

Some have a little, some have a lot. Some mammals found in Britain such as squirrels scramble around the forests. Others stand tall with giant antlers like the red deer, Britain’s largest land ...

California ground squirrels have typically been considered herbivores or granivores, eating mostly plants and seeds. The new findings offer the first documentation of the species actively preying ...

It's just that recorded cases of squirrels hunting and eating other live creatures are rare. Very few species have been known to do so. But now, scientists have discovered evidence of a type of ...

"I got into flying lemurs, and that led me into research on all gliding mammals." The purpose of using a wind tunnel to study flying squirrels—the test subjects, by the way, are models that ...

A holiday park in north Norfolk has welcomed the arrival of two endangered squirrels. Kelling Heath Holiday Park has shared ...

As the squirrels disappeared in the dark forest, we watched back the evening shots and were ecstatic. It was incredible to be able to see in such detail a land mammal spreading not its wings but ...

But why does the Channel Island have no native red squirrels - and why does it lack other small species like moles, badgers and foxes, as well as snakes and toads? Dr Ellie Scopes, a population ...