Red squirrels on the Isle of Wight are thriving and have sufficient food and natural habitats to support a growth in their population, a new study has found. Scientists also found that while the ...

In nature, it really is survival of the fittest. Photos of a red squirrel and woodpecker have gone viral after they showed the two animals fighting each other for nuts. Karen Crawford took the ...

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 ...

Red squirrels have officially been classified as endangered across Great Britain, particularly in England and Wales. With the introduction of grey squirrels, outcompeting them and carrying the fatal ...

British red squirrels are being afflicted by a medieval strain of leprosy that was thought to have disappeared from Europe over 700 years ago, according to a new DNA analysis. Researchers say the ...

Generally, I prefer to handle my own problem wildlife issues around my home, such as dealing with destructive garden-raiding raccoons (which once tried to reside in my attic), and I have usually been ...

A red squirrel in the north east of Scotland, photographed by Natasha Lichtarowicz Back in 2009, red squirrels were thin on the ground in Aberdeen - instead grey squirrels were a common sight in the ...

British deer could face the same fate as the red squirrel, experts have warned – as a study reveals they are being outcompeted by a hardier, more aggressive species. Researchers have discovered that ...

Microbiologists at EPFL and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that red squirrels in Britain and Ireland carry the two bacterial species that cause leprosy in humans. Once rampant in medieval ...

This, the Adjidaumo of Longfellow’s celebrated poem Hiawatha, is the voice of the Adirondack’s brooding forests. The red squirrel’s appearance varies seasonally. The paler, reddish to olive gray coat ...