A Canadian miner stumbled upon a frozen, mangled clump of fur, and at first it was unidentifiable. But after a series of X-rays, experts now believe it was a young, curled-up Arctic ground squirrel.
that still lives throughout the Yukon today, though they look more like groundhogs than tree squirrels.DeAgostini/Getty Images
"I study bones all the time and they're exciting, they're really neat. But when you see an animal that's perfectly preserved, that's 30,000 years old, and you can see its face and its skin and its hair and all that, it's just so visceral. It brings it so to life," Zazula said.Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images
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