Squirrels can be pesky for various reasons, but you might've never suspected the bushy-tailed fiend scampering around your garden to be a tomato thief, too. Squirrels do eat tomatoes, which may be why ...

We all know squirrels love nuts, seeds and grains — filling their cheeks with the day's foraging. But a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California, Davis, ...

A new study from researchers in California and Wisconsin shows that ground squirrels, thought to mainly eat nuts and seeds, catch and eat smaller rodents, too. The study, published in the ...

Flesh-eating squirrels which hunt down and devour voles have been spotted for the first time in the wild. Until now, squirrels were thought to be primarily vegetarian, cramming their cheeks full of ...

Some East Bay ground squirrels have given up eating only seeds and plants and now are choosing to hunt and eat other rodents. A team of scientists spent 12 years in Briones Regional Park near Martinez ...

Researchers said in a new study that they were stunned to witness California ground squirrels, who mostly eat nuts and seeds, hunting and eating voles. First, the predators ripped off the rodents’ ...

Scientists have for the first time ever found “shocking” evidence of carnivorous behaviour in squirrels — hunting and eating voles in California. Ground squirrels are often seen stuffing their cheeks ...

The Richardson's ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature is also a ferocious tunneler, and it's exasperating the people ...