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In pop culture, squirrels are often seen as jerky, excited critters on the hunt for nuts to stuff themselves with and tuck ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about carnivorous squirrels, the history of life on Earth, and new insights into the relationship between people and dogs.

Water voles are thriving in Kielder, but there is still work to do to ensure that they can build numbers up further ...

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First, the predators ripped off the rodents’ heads. Then they dug their teeth into their prey’s torsos, feasting on meat, ...

Squirrels are mostly income breeders, meaning they can produce more offspring if they eat more, so Smith wonders if eating voles could cause squirrels to have more babies. She has other unanswered ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Squirrels might look like adorable, nut-hoarding furballs, but some are ruthless predators that hunt, tear apart and devour small, mouse-like rodents called voles. That's the ...

WASHINGTON – Squirrels might look like adorable, nut-hoarding furballs but some are ruthless predators that hunt, tear apart and devour voles. That is the startling finding of a new study ...

Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, ...

Between June and July, researchers recorded 74 interactions involving California ground squirrels and voles, with 42 percent of them involving active hunting of their fellow rodents. Co-author ...