Back then, humans and squirrels lived in much closer proximity to each other. For one, squirrel fur was commonly used in the High and Late Middle Ages for lining garments. Additionally ...

This was P’Nut’s fur-well. The world’s most famous squirrel looked happy, healthy and at ease in his final moments — just before state agents brutally beheaded him, a heart wrenching new ...

When parted, the white hairs of the belly show gray bases, the fur on the upper parts of the body has a reddish brown cast, and the undersurface of the tail is buffy white to tan. Apart from these ...

Flying squirrels have small rounded heads, large black eyes, prominent ears, long whiskers, and well-furred tails. Their fur is dense, soft and silky. The tail is horizontally (dorso-ventrally) ...

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) We wanted to know if this was fur-real, so we reached out ... “It appears to be a squirrel that is leucistic, the result of a genetic mutation resulting ...

Their eyes are large, helping these nocturnal mammals navigate the dark, and their fur color and markings vary by species. Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others ...

As for why, it has a lot to do with the fact that rattle snakes eat squirrels. So to protect themselves from becoming lunch, squirrels chew discarded snakeskin and then smear it on their fur to mask ...