Take a leaf out of the book of the red squirrel, and try our quiz of the day. It was Squirrel Appreciation Day this week, and ...

No not little green men!

The American red squirrel is barely twice the size of a chipmunk and prefers pine forest and pine nuts as a dietary staple.

In northern Scotland, red squirrels almost exclusively eat pine cone seeds which they extract by gnawing away the cone scales one by one. In northern England’s mixed deciduous and coniferous ...

Red squirrels in the UK eat a variety of food, depending on where they live. In northern Scotland, red squirrels almost exclusively eat pine cone seeds which they extract by gnawing away the cone ...

Peanuts are easier for squirrels to eat than well-armored pine nuts or hazelnuts. The red squirrel is protected, so scientists curious about the impact of its diet looked at specimens that had ...

The red squirrel is the only species of squirrel native ... That led them to change to much harder nuts, such as pine or hazelnuts, the type the squirrels would have been eating naturally.

Adam Smith started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow in 2021. The initiative is the largest systemic ...

Normally, red squirrels chomp on hard food such as hazelnuts, pine seeds, acorns and even tree bark. But during the 1990s conservationists provided a local population of red squirrels in Formby ...

The four-mile trail around Lake Ahquabi, in the state park of the same name, is a quiet spot that's a great summertime getaway. Beat the heat in the shade and dip your toes in the water to cool off.