Tomato season brings many garden-fresh food lovers to the vegetable patch, though not all are welcome. From ground squirrels ...

Modeling shows that being able to make and break behavioural habits increases the survival chances of animals in the face of predation ...

The A24 Trap Kit — ATC’s workhorse for rats and outdoor mice. A single CO₂ cylinder powers up to 24 strikes, making it well ...

There is a lot going on in the yard. Each spring, I fancy myself as a conductor preparing the yard for a beautiful explosion ...

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...

DNA sequences from fossilized poo have revealed that ancient relatives of ground squirrels (Urocitellus sp.) ate a diverse diet of plants, insects and carcasses of megafauna, including woolly mammoths ...

Ancient squirrel poo doesn’t stink. At least not at first. But that changes when you begin to break down the pellets. Melting them made it clear that they were not mineralized, stony fossils, says ...

Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths, bison and saber-toothed cats. By Kate Golembiewski During the ...

Ground squirrels are a keystone species. I know what you are thinking: “That means Gunn High School is the epicenter of the ecological universe.” Or maybe “How is it that mounds of dried grass studded ...

A hidden wildlife camera recorded a charming moment as a ground squirrel emerged from the tall grass to enjoy a fresh meal. Standing upright among the vegetation, the small mammal carefully held its ...