A fox squirrel perched on part of an experiment designed to test its agility and decision-making. Researchers used peanuts to entice the rodents to participate. UC Berkeley photo by Judy Jinn Nearly ...

If you have ever paused a slow-motion clip of a squirrel jumping from a tree, you might have noticed something funny. Right ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap ...

High-speed video of squirrels executing amazing leaps in pursuit of peanuts captures the animals’ innovative solutions to reaching their goal. Video courtesy of Roxanne Makasdjian and Jeremy Snowden, ...

Parkour enthusiasts need look no further than up in the trees for inspiration. Squirrels’ aerial acrobatics make the rodents masters of the form, a new study suggests. A detailed look at how squirrels ...

The super hero landing has become an iconic piece of comics and the TV shows and movies which they inspire. Heroes ranging from Superman to Iron Man to Captain Marvel have been seen landing in an ...

Top photo: A free-ranging squirrel leaps from one branch to a branch instrumented to measure force. (Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump ...

Squirrels quickly learned to jump from the very bendy branch that they expected to be stiff and could stick the landing in just five tries. When we raised the ante still further by raising the height ...

The acrobatic rodents called fox squirrels learn to leap from branch to branch with a mix of careful calculation and ‘parkour’, according to experiments that had them bounding through a simulated ...