The North American squirrel is an oft-seen but under-recognized staple of North America. They operate on a low-key level but ...

I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It’s likely ...

This week’s library column topic I found several weeks ago while researching for a previous column. And so, this week I’m ...

Quick Take 1968 legislation mandated the Eastern Gray Squirrel as the official game species to preserve frontier history. The ...

Up and down the hallway, the lights were out in all the classrooms and laboratories, along with the refrigerators, air conditioning units and lab equipment. I guess I’d better go and get it. One of ...

The Western gray squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by wildfires and habitat fragmentation. Courtesy of Jennifer Becar with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

Most North Carolinians see gray squirrels every day as they race along fences, leap between oak branches, or raid backyard ...

For years, I’ve enjoyed the acrobatic antics of gray squirrels as they chase one another up and down tree trunks and through the high branches in the yard — and even as they use their ingenuity to get ...

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?

A melanistic Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 29, 2024. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images) Correction: A previous ...