If you have a car, you've likely had an encounter with a seemingly suicidal squirrel running in front of your car, but what ...

The predators? Squirrels, the populous mammals who have long been known to mostly eat nuts, seeds and plants. While studying ground squirrels in Northern California this past summer, biologists ...

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 ...

The discovery emerged during the Long-term Behavioral Ecology of California Ground Squirrels Project, a 12-year study conducted in Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, California.

Flesh-eating squirrels which hunt down and devour voles ... cramming their cheeks full of seeds and nuts, which they often bury in underground stores to get through the colder months.

A new study from U.C. Davis and UW-Eau Claire found that California ground squirrels not only eat nuts and fruit — but also hunt and eat voles, which are small mouse-like rodents. The study was ...

Squirrels typically eat acorns, seeds, nuts and fruit, but are known to occasionally eat fresh carrion or roadkill, insects, eggs or other discarded food. Some squirrels at California’s colleges ...

These squirrels eat nuts in the fall and winter and store nuts in nests, cracks, cavities and tree forks, caches with up to 15,000 nuts in a season. A telltale sign of flying squirrels is the ...

CREDIT: Sonja Wild, UC Davis. Most squirrels are omnivores, but are usually seen eating nuts, seeds, and grains. However, some species are known to eat some animal protein. The eastern gray ...

The furry creatures are traditionally known for feasting on nuts, berries and the like, but scientists recently noticed one type of squirrel eating meat. According to a study published in the “Journal ...

The furry creatures are traditionally known for feasting on nuts, berries and the like, but scientists recently noticed one type of squirrel eating meat. According to a study published in the “J ...