For the past two summers, I have spent time as the personal servant to a couple of (according to one scholarly source) "semi-fossorial sciurids" -- members of the squirrel family that spend some of ...

If you have ever spent a morning in a park or your own backyard, you have likely seen a furry tail darting across the grass. But was it a chipmunk or a squirrel? While they might look like cousins at ...