Voles, along with ground squirrels, are a constant thorn for DeWitt County producer Bob Kuntz. Bare spots in his no-till soybean fields are plain testament to growing rodent pressure, he explains.

Woodchucks are essentially a giant ground squirrel. They belong to the squirrel ... both forest and meadow with fairly deep soil in spots. Woodchucks construct burrows that can be 3-feet-deep ...

who both began this study in the 1990s to learn how Arctic ground squirrels survive such long, cold, dark, winters and just how cold their hibernation spots were. These questions prompted them to ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's awesome: Rumor has it that tufted ground squirrels, nicknamed "vampire" squirrels in a 2014 Science article, jump down from low branches onto the backs of deer and ...

It’s all light work for this unlikely predator: the California ground squirrel. “I could barely believe my eyes,” said Sonja Wild, a postdoctoral research fellow at UC Davis. “Once we started looking, ...

By studying the hibernation of a small ground squirrel ... at around 39 degrees Fahrenheit, the squirrels developed cloudy spots in their eyes. Once they warmed back up, their lenses cleared ...