Sit back and have a laugh at this round-up of funny squirrel pictures. Also don't miss these nutty facts about squirrels.

Fun photographs capture a red squirrel flying through the air - like Superman. Peter Wilkinson, 60, took the photos on a 'very cold morning at Argaty Red Kites, near Doune, Scotland, on 3 January.

Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others, such as the Japanese dwarf flying squirrel, have two. The time of year for mating and birth depend on the species as well.

A bushy-tailed squirrel sniffing round Leek, Staffordshire. We had to scour our database for pictures involving the sun this week - but it did put in an appearance in Cleobury Mortimer ...

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan ...

The squirrel makes its home in southern parts ... their ranges in North America that we were really able to put the picture together of where the species' boundaries really were," McLean said.