At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...

Before Chuck Stone wrote his first and only children’s book, he didn’t research the genre. “I wanted it to come out of me,” says Stone of the 32-page story he wrote in one afternoon. Stone’s book, ...

Certainly, there is nothing notable about a gray squirrel, which is probably one of the most common mammals to inhabit Pennsylvania. But when a gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) takes on another ...

The odd squirrel, as black as soot, ran across the road in front of my truck -- one of a handful of really dark squirrels I'd seen in my town since winter's end. One would be a freak occurrence, two a ...

If your neighborhood has a lot of mature, nut-bearing trees, chances are you also see a lot of gray squirrels. Occasionally, you might notice a squirrel that isn’t gray. Is that a sign of disease?

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...