Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study published in the journal Science, a team of biologists and biomechanics researchers from UC Berkeley outlines how ...

Parkour enthusiasts need look no further than up in the trees for inspiration. Squirrels’ aerial acrobatics make the rodents masters of the form, a new study suggests. A detailed look at how squirrels ...

Squirrels are like human parkour athletes when it comes to jumping from one place to another at speed, a new study shows. Researchers in California filmed squirrel movements as the creatures worked ...

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 ...

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, ...

Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings. Just more YouTube content documenting the crazy antics ...

The acrobatic rodents called fox squirrels learn to leap from branch to branch with a mix of careful calculation and ‘parkour’, according to experiments that had them bounding through a simulated ...

It’s difficult to overstate how eager scientists and engineers are to build animal-like robots. Various professionals have been working on everything from fly bots to robo-cheetahs, and the invasion ...