The author and his buddies floated into a nightmare of endless bogs, muck, and Florida swamp. But their efforts were well worth it ...

Coyotes have moved into South Florida in recent decades, and they’ve found a bounty of invasive and non-native species to ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, deep in the mountains of the Yukon, a ground squirrel pooped. That scat stayed frozen for millenia—until very recently, when researchers thawed it out and realized ...

Zombie-esque squirrels covered in oozing, wart-like tumors have been invading backyards across the United States and the reason behind the deformities is likely the species’ version of herpes, ...

In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths and other ice age animals. These droppings, hundreds of thousands of years ...

Squirrel droppings dating back up to 700,000 years have revealed "remarkable" new details about the Arctic's evolutionary history. The dung — preserved for millennia in the deep permafrost of Canada's ...