Before Chuck Stone wrote his first and only children’s book, he didn’t research the genre. “I wanted it to come out of me,” says Stone of the 32-page story he wrote in one afternoon. Stone’s book, ...

Q: My husband and I walk in a public park in central Alabama where there are lots of gray squirrels. According to what I have read about eastern gray squirrels, it's not uncommon for them to have "an ...

Certainly, there is nothing notable about a gray squirrel, which is probably one of the most common mammals to inhabit Pennsylvania. But when a gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) takes on another ...

Citizen Science Salon is a partnership between Discover and SciStarter.org. In 1902, an international trade deal was brokered between the U.S. and Canada. Frank Baker, superintendent of the ...

As a gardener who also likes to feed the birds, I have a love-hate relationship with squirrels. They dig up flower bulbs, steal my birdseed and bury nuts in my herb box. We even had a family of ...

If your neighborhood has a lot of mature, nut-bearing trees, chances are you also see a lot of gray squirrels. Occasionally, you might notice a gray squirrel that isn’t gray. Is that a sign of disease ...

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...