People can be taken aback by the sight of squirrels missing hair. Sightings of partially furred squirrels is not unusual with warmer temperatures experienced through the winter. Like many wildlife ...

People can be taken aback by the sight of squirrels missing hair. Sightings of partially furred squirrels is not unusual with warmer temperatures experienced through the winter. Like many wildlife ...

Squirrel nests a source of wonder. News. By Pam Cottrel. Feb 2, 2014 ...

Among the several squirrels that clean up under our bird feeders, there recently have been two with no hair on their tails, a reader wrote recently. “They look like rat tails. Can you shed any ...

At first, this brown, mangled ball of fur and claws was unidentifiable. But X-ray scans have revealed that this grapefruit-sized lump is a 30,000-year-old mummified ground squirrel from the ice ...

Caring for orphaned baby squirrels is hard, messy work. ... carefully lifting out a squirrel no bigger than a glue stick. The fur hung loose on its fragile frame, and its spine was visible.

The fur loss is caused by a fungus or mange mites that spread easily from squirrel to squirrel in their winter dens. On frigid days, unrelated squirrels seek out the coziest dens and squish together.

It's the time of year when squirrels gather nuts, but police are now looking for a nut who gathered a squirrel. Squirrel-napping ruffles fur Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

An unrecognizable ball of fur, claws and limbs that was recently unearthed in Canada is actually a mummified squirrel that likely died while it hibernated around 30,000 years ago, scientists reveal.

Mysterious fur ball found frozen in Northern Canada turns out to be a mummified SQUIRREL that died 30,000 years ago. Experts believe the Ice Age creature may have been hibernating at time of death ...

Thanks to melanosome analysis, researchers discovered that the animal had dark grey-brown fur all over. Because of this, they ...