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When it comes to spotting Arizona mammals, Mount Graham red squirrels (Tamiasciurus fremonti grahamensis) are among the rarest sights of all. Found only high atop their namesake and other peaks in Eastern Arizona’s Pinaleño Mountains, these squirrels, a subspecies of the Southwestern red squirrel, numbered in the low hundreds until 2017, when the lightning-caused Frye Fire burned much of their habitat. After the fire, the Arizona Game and Fish Department counted just 35 surviving squirrels, but as of late 2022, the population was thought to have rebounded to more than 150.

A 3-month-old bald eagle marked July 4 in a special way this year when it spread its wings and launched into the sky for the first time above Riggs Lake,

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today of their intent to sue the agency for its delay in protecting habitat essential to the survival and recovery of southeast Arizona’s highly endangered Mount Graham red squirrels.

University of Arizona researchers have published a paper announcing the discovery of a giant planet they think may be generating spiral arms to an infant solar system.

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy examines how a newly discovered exoplanet, MWC 758c, could be producing spiral arms in its young system. MWC 7 | Space