I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

Grey squirrels can actually come in black morphs, which are doing well in one US city because they're less likely to become roadkill ...

Adults weigh 454-681 g (1-1.5 lb). The deciduous forests of the eastern half of North America provide optimum habitat for the gray squirrel, but the range includes portions of the mixed forest in ...

Olney, Illinois, has taken steps to protect an iconic mammal from domesticated felines, setting a possible model for other places to follow ...

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I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

“I’m hopeful that endangered status will ring the alarm bells and spur action.” Western gray squirrels superficially resemble invasive eastern gray squirrels, but they are bigger and have bushier ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a giant flying squirrel? Yes, a giant flying squirrel was uncovered at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum. The discovery offers insight into past environments and animal ...

Parker’s goal is to find out whether Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis ... will help identify what types of information the animals glean from other species’ utterances. These squirrels are ...

And being albino leaves the animals at an incredible disadvantage ... Since 1997, the counts have concluded that the albino eastern gray squirrels of Olney have been slowly disappearing, says ...