So why haven't black squirrels become as common as their gray cousins in this area? One reason is that the gene for black fur is recessive, meaning that it takes an uncommon pairing of parents to ...

Black squirrels are actually just gray squirrels with a different shade of fur Sujit Kumar via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Per Live Science’s Rafi Letzter, the researchers pinpointed ...

Scientists have worked out why some squirrels have black fur in a groundbreaking new study. They discovered the unusually coloured black squirrel is the result of interbreeding between fox and ...

A black squirrel looks a real tough nut, with striped fur resembling toned abs. He posed like a male model for Flo McEwan, 52, a magistrate, while she was exploring an old churchyard in Baldock ...

The black squirrel is actually a gray squirrel with a faulty pigment gene carried over from the fox squirrel that turns their fur a darker shade. (Some fox squirrels, which are usually reddish ...

Biologists from the United Kingdom think they’ve decoded the mystery of all the gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) running around the United States with black fur. The bit of genetic code ...

Biologists from the United Kingdom think they've decoded the mystery of all the gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) running around the United States with black fur. To reach that conclusion ...

It may sound a bit nuts but black squirrels are the result of the grey squirrel interbreeding, a study suggests. The two squirrels are the same species, with the only difference being their fur colour ...

The study by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge say the difference between black and grey squirrels is simply the colour of their fur. Author Dr Helen McRobie said grey and fox squirrels ...

The study by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge say the difference between black and grey squirrels is simply the colour of their fur. Author Dr Helen McRobie said grey and fox squirrels ...

The study by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge say the difference between black and grey squirrels is simply the colour of their fur. Author Dr Helen McRobie said grey and fox squirrels ...