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 ...

Have the squirrels gone nuts? Killer squirrels might seem like sci-fi, but squirrels in California have been observed hunting and eating voles for the first time, leading scientists to believe that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every fall, squirrels stash hundreds of nuts to survive the colder winter months. As someone who routinely “hides” things from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squirrels don’t use a single strategy to recover their stashes. Every fall, squirrels stash thousands of nuts and other snacks in ...

A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and then consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of ...

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 ...

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 ...