Adorable Japanese Flying Squirrel Looks Just Like a Furry Cartoon Character originally appeared on PetHelpful. Have you ever seen an animal that's so cute it doesn't even look real but instead looks ...

Japan is home to at least three different native sciurine species—squirrels, as we commonly call them—including the Japanese squirrel, the Japanese flying squirrel, and the Japanese giant flying ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Keepers at a Japanese zoo are suspected of killing dozens of squirrels ...

Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) and independent photographer Gomi Koichi have observed a Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) routinely feeding on well-known ...

A research group led by Dr. Tomoaki Murakami from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has revealed that fibrinogen Aα-chain amyloidosis, a previously unreported disease in animals other ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Squirrels in Japan have been found repeatedly eating highly poisonous ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Have you ever seen an animal that's so cute it doesn't even look real but instead looks more like a cartoon character? That's certainly the case for this adorable Japanese flying squirrel captured on ...

Often featured in fairytales, the red toadstool mushroom fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is toxic to humans and many animals. However, experts have observed that Japanese squirrels can safely eat ...