Ground squirrels have a surprising survival trick. They use the smell of rattlesnakes to hide their own scent from predators.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squirrels are abundant in the wild, though they have many predators, including the dreaded rattlesnake. But the small mammals do ...

PINE SPRINGS, TX -- You may want to think twice the next time you want to get up close and personal with the squirrels that hang out in your local park. The National Park Service sent out this picture ...

In a battle between a California ground squirrel and a rattlesnake, many would put the odds on the rattlesnake to come out ...

Nature is full of instances where survival is all about intelligence rather than physical prowess. Perhaps one of the most interesting examples of such intelligence is found in ground squirrels, which ...

A squirrel has gone viral after it refused to back down and defended itself from a menacing rattlesnake. The tense showdown happened around 6 p.m. on June 11 at the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge, ...

Facedwith an angry rattlesnake, you or I might freeze with fear. But California ground squirrels take the opposite approach: they heat their tails up to warn the snake that they will not take an ...

BOISE, Idaho — Southern Idaho's sprawling Snake River Plain has been harboring a distinct species of squirrel that's emerged from the underground. Researchers have identified a new species of squirrel ...

Squirrels are abundant in the wild, though they have many predators, including the dreaded rattlesnake. But the small mammals do not simply flee their slithering reptile enemies. In a surprising twist ...