While there are only four species of prairie dogs, 25 species of their close relatives, the ground squirrels, range across the western U.S. and adjacent Canadian prairie provinces. The 13-lined ...

KIND OF A SMALL, PALE GROUND ... squirrel took collecting samples and genetic work. “It really takes, in this case, genetic data, sequencing genes from many individuals across the species ...

Ground squirrels seem to be everywhere along the North County coast, despite the best efforts of city and state parks officials to reduce their numbers. “I almost tripped over a few, and one ...

The study suggests that California ground squirrels, previously thought to solely be granivorous species, are actually an "opportunistic omnivore" with a more flexible diet than previously assumed ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources, the Nature Conservancy and Purdue Fort Wayne have teamed to return Franklin’s ground squirrels to their native Indiana range, starting with a ...