If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Today, we know the answer is a resounding yes -- thanks to a bio-acoustic monitoring system that uses artificial ...

Stalking through the woods, a hunter spies a deer feeding, unaware, through the pines. Just a few more feet and, suddenly, an alarm sounds. The deer flees. Red squirrels seem to take particular ...

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About a month ago, a hiker at Sand Ridge Nature Center in South Holland spotted a small creature with reddish brown fur scurrying up the trunk of a long-needled pine tree. “At first we thought it ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – You better move on. We recently caught sight of a wildlife confrontation out the kitchen window: a squirrel scampering on the same tree branch as a red tailed hawk. The squirrel ...

Invasive fox squirrels have spread into Utah, carrying a disease that threatens to wipe out native red squirrels — a loss that could severely impact forest heal ...