Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science.

Red squirrels in the UK eat ... of peanuts in the shell (or monkey nuts). Workers at the reserve cut back on this type of feeding from 2007 onwards and encouraged members of the public to do ...

You are what you eat Red squirrels ... peanuts in the shell (or monkey nuts). Workers at the reserve cut back on this type of feeding from 2007 onwards and encouraged members of the public to do ...

The research team decided to study the remains of squirrels to learn more about what they were like during the peanut-eating era. Overall, they examined 113 skulls and 387 jaws. One pattern they ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Red squirrels in Formby, England, fed primarily on peanuts by humans, developed flatter skulls and weaker jaws compared to their Scottish counterparts. These ...

Eager to learn about what sorts of physical changes the squirrels might have undergone during their peanut-eating days, the research team studied the remains of squirrels donated over a number of ...