Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A melanistic Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 29, 2024. (Photo by Creative ...

Long associated with the city of Kent and celebrated as Kent State University’s unofficial mascot, the black-furred variant of the eastern gray squirrel has quietly but steadily made inroads ...

We’re all familiar with squirrels. Whether you think they’re adorable critters or wish they didn’t have a habit of sniffing out your bird feeders, you’ve almost certainly seen one, two, or 10. That ...

It is always exciting to see something new, and if it moves with the alacrity of a gray squirrel, and looks like a gray squirrel except for its color, then is it a gray squirrel even if it is black?

Over the years of writing, we have seen various repetitions of questions about animals, especially about ones like the black squirrel that visited our yard a few days ago in the second week of ...

The sightings of three black squirrels during a winter’s walk around my block led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I believe that it was about three years ago when I first spotted a black squirrel at ...