These treats require much less chewing and comparison with historic skeletons reveals a change in skull and jaw ... overcrowding. Red squirrels, once widespread in the UK, have seen their numbers ...

The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a partnership of forestry and conservation organisations. Ms Bailey said she initially found four red ...

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.

But the impact of the differences in skull and jaw shape on the strength and efficiency of the squirrels’ bite suggests that diet could be an underlying cause. Red squirrels in the UK eat a ...

A rare colony of red squirrels has been discovered on a tree plantation in the Yorkshire Dales. The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a ...

But the impact of the differences in skull and jaw shape on the strength and efficiency of the squirrels’ bite suggests that diet could be an underlying cause. Red squirrels in the UK eat a variety of ...