January is an ideal time to spot one of the UK’s most distinctive winter residents, the red squirrel, as the endangered species becomes more active during the early stages of mating season. With fewer ...

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 (Sciurus vulgaris) thrive in the north of England and Scotland and occupy a patchwork of highly fragmented woodland habitats. In the September 21 Science, Marie Hale and colleagues from ...

Made possible by National Lottery players, the project aims to protect and conserve populations of red squirrels in the north of England and southern Scotland. The UK is at a critical point in the ...

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science. The ...

The return of the formerly ostracized pine marten to Scotland is helping native red squirrels regain ground from their invasive grey cousins. In the late 1800s, wealthy Victorians shipped North ...

A local haven praised by visitors as 'serene' and 'beautiful' has been named one of the best spots in the UK to see red squirrels. Pow Hill Country Park, on the County Durham border with ...