X-Rays Solve The Mystery of This 30,000 Year Old Mummified Creature

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X-Rays Solve The Mystery of This 30,000 Year Old Mummified Creature
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At first the brown, mangled ball of fur and claws is unidentifiable.

that still lives throughout the Yukon today. They look more like groundhogs than tree squirrels.

These critters make nests underground for their hibernation. Many of these nests have been preserved since the ice age, and they're common findings in the Yukon. A whole squirrel is more rare."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's amazing to think that this little guy was running around the Yukon several thousand years ago," the

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