Most Penn students know that black squirrels are a common sight on campus now, but the unofficial fixtures of campus culture were likely introduced to Penn over 200 years ago. “Black squirrels” — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Yasmeen Matthews arrived at Kent State University as a freshman, she was convinced that the school's mascot was a black ...

Long associated with the city of Kent and celebrated as Kent State University’s unofficial mascot, the black-furred variant of the eastern gray squirrel has quietly but steadily made inroads ...

We’re all familiar with squirrels. Whether you think they’re adorable critters or wish they didn’t have a habit of sniffing out your bird feeders, you’ve almost certainly seen one, two, or 10. That ...

The sightings of three black squirrels during a winter’s walk around my block led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I believe that it was about three years ago when I first spotted a black squirrel at ...