'Brown blob' found in Yukon is a well-preserved Ice Age squirrel

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[BenLurkin]

Yukon paleontologists have this week unveiled another unusual find from the goldfields near Dawson City: a mummified Arctic ground squirrel from the Ice Age, curled up in a ball as though it died while hibernating.

It was found a few years ago, but it's being shown off now because the government is preparing the dead rodent for display at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse, expected to reopen later this spring after a redesign.

The animal was actually found in 2018, by a placer miner working at Hester Creek near Dawson City, Yukon.

Miners are routinely finding Ice Age bones and fossils in the Klondike goldfields. Two of the most exciting finds in recent years have been a mummified wolf pup and a baby mammoth.

[Red Badger]

That means it was much warmer way up there at one time...................

[Yo-Yo]

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[Islander7]

That means it was much warmer way up there at one time...................

Shhhh! You’re not supposed to say that.

[BenLurkin]

Scrat rocks.

[Sacajaweau]

Their story is sketchy. I think we need Columbo on this one. Was it possibly suicide?? Did his wife throw him to a wolf and he hid. And the snows came...

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] The animal was actually found in 2018, by a placer miner working at Hester Creek near Dawson City, Yukon.

Miners are routinely finding Ice Age bones and fossils in the Klondike goldfields. Two of the most exciting finds in recent years have been a mummified wolf pup and a baby mammoth. [/snip]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Not squirrel. Is moose! Rocky

[Larry Lucido]

“Squirrel!”

“Nice try. But I’m trying to concentrate on digging.”

“No, really! Squirrel!”

[Larry Lucido]

[Red Badger]

[mware]

What happen did a prehistoric owl eat him and throw him up as an owl pellet?

[EvilCapitalist]

Brown blob? What does this have to do with Stacey Abrams?

[Red Badger]

[csvset]

Saw a mouse that had probably tried to get a drink out of claw foot bathtub and fell in. This was outside of a trailer up in the mountains. A thin layer of ice had formed and underneath the ice was the mouse, now oddly translucent, you could see his entire skeleton, his fur was still attached and intact. A jellyfish mouse.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Guess all that ‘acid rain’ will do that.

[joshua c]

Scrat!

[gundog]

The oil we’re not supposed to touch up there is what remains of ancient temperate forests.

[Honest Nigerian]

Piltdown Squirrel. He’s going to be famous!