Scotland’s red squirrels have among the lowest genetic diversity of any species leaving them vulnerable to disease outbreaks, a study shows. Their lack of diversity could explain why they are slow to ...

A red squirrel eating a hazlenut Alverstone Mead Nature Reserve in Sandown, England. (Credit: Peter Trimming, CC by 2.0 Generic) (CN) — The history of leprosy has been rewritten, thanks to a study ...

A dead rabbit found in central Illinois tested positive for a bacterial disease last week, prompting the local health department to urge residents to monitor their families and pets for signs of the ...

A dead rabbit found in Central Illinois has tested positive for a bacterial disease, prompting the local health department to urge residents to monitor their families and pets for signs of the illness ...

When Kathleen Walker-Meikle, a historian at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, ponders the Middle Ages, her mind tends to drift not to religious conquest or Viking raids, but to squirrels. Tawny ...

There are many intriguing facts about squirrels—some of which you likely have never even heard before. Squirrels are far more than just those cute creatures who wreak havoc in your garden or cause ...

We all love spotting adorable wild animals frolicking in the wild or our own backyards. Finding a wild animal with a gruesome skin condition instead isn't as fun. However, people have been spotting ...