Photo: Government of Yukon
A frozen ball of brown fur that was unearthed by a miner in Canada has been determined to be the mummified remains of a squirrel believed to be around 30,000 years old. The peculiar discovery was reportedly made back in 2018 by a worker at a site known as Hester Creek in a gold-rich region of the country's Yukon Territory. The curious clump seemingly went unnoticed until recently when the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre began preparations for a grand reopening this spring and, with plans to showcase the odd ball, experts took a closer look at it. "It's not quite recognizable," Yukon government paleontologist Grant Zazula said, "until you see these little hands and these claws, and you see a little tail, and then you see ears."
More on this remarkable story at the Coast to Coast AM website.