Tree squirrels are the Olympic divers of the rodent world, leaping gracefully among branches and structures high above the ground. And as with human divers, a squirrel’s success in this competition ...

A fox squirrel perched on part of an experiment designed to test its agility and decision-making. Researchers used peanuts to entice the rodents to participate. UC Berkeley photo by Judy Jinn Nearly ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap ...

High-speed video of squirrels executing amazing leaps in pursuit of peanuts captures the animals’ innovative solutions to reaching their goal. Video courtesy of Roxanne Makasdjian and Jeremy Snowden, ...

The super hero landing has become an iconic piece of comics and the TV shows and movies which they inspire. Heroes ranging from Superman to Iron Man to Captain Marvel have been seen landing in an ...

Squirrels quickly learned to jump from the very bendy branch that they expected to be stiff and could stick the landing in just five tries. When we raised the ante still further by raising the height ...

Tree squirrels are the Olympic divers of the rodent world, leaping gracefully among branches and structures high above the ground. And as with human divers, a squirrel’s success in this competition ...

Researchers and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, developed a robot named Salto, inspired by squirrels, that can jump from branch to branch and land on narrow perches while ...

First: I know I’ve been AWOL for the last two weeks. Sorry – computer problems. You know how it is … Anyway, it’s funny. The things we take for granted, that is. The things we assume. Especially where ...

The time has come for even the common squirrel to step up into movie superhero stardom. In "Flora & Ulysses" (streaming Friday on Disney+), young human Flora (Matilda Lawler) saves a squirrel's life, ...