A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains, is a common sight. But a new study provides the first evidence that California ground squirrels also hunt, kill and eat voles.

(KTLA/KTXL) — You likely would not be surprised to see a ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains. Researchers in one part of California, however, have found squirrels ...

Ravenous California ground squirrels have been observed killing and eating small rodents, marking the first widespread carnivorous behavior documented among the species. The squirrels, rodents ...

Ravenous California ground squirrels have been observed killing and eating small rodents, marking the first widespread carnivorous behavior documented among the species. The squirrels, rodents ...

Some East Bay ground squirrels have given up eating only seeds and plants and now are choosing to hunt and eat other rodents. A team of scientists spent 12 years in Briones Regional Park near ...

After watching squirrels in California for 12 years, a team of scientists has seen them actively hunt down and kill small rodents this past summer. California ground squirrels are known to mostly ...

Jennifer E. Smith, associate professor of biology at UW-Eau Claire who leads the long-term ground squirrels project with Sonja Wild of UC Davis, on the video evidence of ground squirrels involved ...

The predators? Squirrels, the populous mammals who have long been known to mostly eat nuts, seeds and plants. While studying ground squirrels in Northern California this past summer, biologists ...

But a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California, Davis, suggests the eating habits of California ground squirrels could be shifting. According to a ...

As part of an ongoing 12-year study of California ground squirrels at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, researchers last summer watched as squirrels began to chase — and eat ...