Red squirrels have returned to Aberdeen city centre, reversing a retreat north dating back to the 1970s. Tests confirm a red squirrel found dead at the village of Kirkbean had contracted squirrelpox.

Back in 2009, red squirrels were thin on the ground in Aberdeen - instead grey squirrels were a common sight in the city's trees and parks. Today the red squirrel population is thriving thanks to the ...

Scotland is home to around 80% of the UK's red squirrels. Although native to the UK, the red squirrel population has been under threat since non-native grey squirrels were brought here around 150 ...

Conservationists have hailed the "super-exciting" success of a rare colony of red squirrels discovered on a tree plantation in North Yorkshire. The animals were first identified in January, in a sitka ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool which has been trained to tell the difference between grey and red squirrels could be "an absolute game changer", conservationists say. The system, called Squirrel ...

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 ...

Previous research had found leprosy in modern red squirrels, and genetic analysis suggested the strain was closely related to leprosy found in medieval humans. Don Hooper / Loop Images / Universal ...