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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Catsmammoths walk in the background as a group of ground squirrels feast on the carcass of a dead mammoth

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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Catsmammoths walk in the background as a group of ground squirrels feast on the carcass of a dead mammoth
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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Cats

clock-iconJune 15, 2026

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Wild Monkeys Fall Sick With Mpox After Eating Squirrels: Is This How The Virus Jumped To Humans?Severe mpox-associated skin lesions in an infant sooty mangabey at Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire,

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Wild Monkeys Fall Sick With Mpox After Eating Squirrels: Is This How The Virus Jumped To Humans?Severe mpox-associated skin lesions in an infant sooty mangabey at Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire,
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Wild Monkeys Fall Sick With Mpox After Eating Squirrels: Is This How The Virus Jumped To Humans?

clock-iconFebruary 25, 2026
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Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad NewsThe "Chicago rat hole": An impression of a rodent in a Chicago sidewalk.

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Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad NewsThe "Chicago rat hole": An impression of a rodent in a Chicago sidewalk.
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Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News

clock-iconOctober 15, 2025
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Ground Squirrels Filmed Hunting And Eating Voles, A "Shocking" First For The Speciesa squirrel eating a vole

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Ground Squirrels Filmed Hunting And Eating Voles, A "Shocking" First For The Speciesa squirrel eating a vole
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Ground Squirrels Filmed Hunting And Eating Voles, A "Shocking" First For The Species

clock-iconDecember 18, 2024
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Japanese Squirrels Are Chowing Down On Deer Bones – But It's Much Cuter Than You'd ThinkA Japanese squirrel in a tree chewing on a deer jaw bone with the teeth still visible.

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Japanese Squirrels Are Chowing Down On Deer Bones – But It's Much Cuter Than You'd ThinkA Japanese squirrel in a tree chewing on a deer jaw bone with the teeth still visible.
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Japanese Squirrels Are Chowing Down On Deer Bones – But It's Much Cuter Than You'd Think

clock-iconNovember 26, 2024
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Splooting: Why Do Animals Love This Bizarre But Adorable Behavior?Corgi sploot

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Splooting: Why Do Animals Love This Bizarre But Adorable Behavior?Corgi sploot
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Splooting: Why Do Animals Love This Bizarre But Adorable Behavior?

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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval Englandred squirrel sitting on a branch against a green backdrop

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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval Englandred squirrel sitting on a branch against a green backdrop
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Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval England

clock-iconMay 3, 2024
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A Japanese Zoo May Have Accidentally Killed 75 Percent Of Its SquirrelsSmall Japanese squirrel with bushy tail and pointy ears

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A Japanese Zoo May Have Accidentally Killed 75 Percent Of Its SquirrelsSmall Japanese squirrel with bushy tail and pointy ears
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A Japanese Zoo May Have Accidentally Killed 75 Percent Of Its Squirrels

clock-iconDecember 12, 2023
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Wildlife Photographer's Viral Squirrel Clip Becomes Voice Of Dune's Desert Mousearticle image

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Wildlife Photographer's Viral Squirrel Clip Becomes Voice Of Dune's Desert Mousearticle image
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Wildlife Photographer's Viral Squirrel Clip Becomes Voice Of Dune's Desert Mouse

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Squirrel Parkour Could Inspire Search And Rescue AI Robotsarticle image

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Squirrel Parkour Could Inspire Search And Rescue AI Robotsarticle image
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Squirrel Parkour Could Inspire Search And Rescue AI Robots

clock-iconAugust 5, 2021
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Six Squirrels Found Tangled Together In Cuter Version Of The “Rat King” Phenomenonarticle image

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Six Squirrels Found Tangled Together In Cuter Version Of The “Rat King” Phenomenonarticle image
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Six Squirrels Found Tangled Together In Cuter Version Of The “Rat King” Phenomenon

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Preserving Transplant Organs Could Become Easier Thanks To This Little Creaturearticle image

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Preserving Transplant Organs Could Become Easier Thanks To This Little Creaturearticle image
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Preserving Transplant Organs Could Become Easier Thanks To This Little Creature

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Self-love in the animal kingdom.article image

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Self-love in the animal kingdom.article image
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Self-love in the animal kingdom.

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