[editor-surveyor]

"Squirrels can somehow predict which years trees will produce massive amounts of seed, a new study reveals. The animals produce an extra litter of pups months ahead of these unusually large harvests, researchers report."

Another nail in the lifeless corpse of evolutionism.

[trisham]

I guess squirrels are losers in the annual competition for the Darwin Award? :)

[ARealMothersSonForever]

By producing very few cones some years, the trees starve their seed predators, giving themselves an evolutionary advantage.

They could not refrain from making this assertion. Likely the squirrels notice the abundance of flowering buds in the springtime, and have an additional litter. Everything from single celled organisms to humans reproduce by adapting to conditions. Not necessarily evolving. The trees may have an adaptive advantage that has much more to do with soil nutrients and rainfall. To infer that a tree is evolving and sentient enough to discern an advantage is absurd.