Squirrel pox is a highly contagious virus, which is often carried by grey squirrels but is deadly only to reds. SSRS has ...

Three red squirrels have arrived at a small zoo in Herefordshire as part of conservation efforts to boost numbers in the wild ...

Red squirrels appear to be resilient to climate change in Europe, a new study has found. Scientists at Bournemouth University used climate models to help assess the ability of the species to survive ...

A wildlife charity is opposing plans to build wind turbines in a forest amid fears it "would increase the chances of local extinction" of red squirrels in mid Wales. Renewable energy firm Galileo ...

Scientific investigations before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin in 2020 show that urban red squirrels are extremely flexible in adjusting their diurnal activities to the presence of humans ...

Philip Cox has received funding from the Royal Society. Red squirrels have been replaced over a large part of Great Britain by the non-native grey squirrel, introduced from North America in the late ...

Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

The JSPCA said it had rescued 35 red squirrels across the year so far [JSPCA] An animal charity in Jersey has warned motorists to drive "extra carefully" as squirrels are collecting nuts and seeds ...

Sightings of bright red, painted squirrels started in Putnam County, New York, in late 2023, per the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Courtesy of New York State Department of ...

Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of archaeologists and geneticists that studied remains from two archaeological ...

Researchers discovered leprosy-causing germs in people's DNA, as well as a red squirrel found in medieval UK locations, shedding light on the disease's spread. Scientists found leprosy-causing ...