If the funny hyperactive squirrel scratch from the Ice Age film saga was real, maybe we could see it in this photograph. Or one of her kind. an authentic mummified squirrel of the Ice Agewith 30,000 years old.
It looks like a ball of fur, but if you look closely it’s a squirrel from the Ice Age curled up on itself. You can clearly distinguish the legs, nails, head, and tail.
It was discovered in Hester Creek, in the Klondike Goldfields, within the Traditional Territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, near Dawson City, yukon, Canada.
The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center is studying it, to discover all its secrets. she has remained 30 millennia frozen in it permafrost of the Arctic, almost at the North Pole. That is why it is in such a perfect state of preservation.
An x-ray performed by Alpine Veterinary Medical Center shows us that this ice age squirrelcongener of scratchis perfectly preserved:
You can see all its bones, the head and its claws.
This squirrel lived ago 30,000 yearsand from its position it seems that passed away in his sleep. Perhaps she was hibernating, or caught by some kind of avalanche or sudden death.
In recent years, a large number of mummified or frozen animals have been discovered that come to light in the permafrost, the eternally frozen land in the north of the planet.
He climate change it is melting the ice, revealing animals such as mammoths, bison or wolves that have been frozen for thousands of years. Also, climbers and mountaineers who died while climbing the tops of the mountains.
He perfect state of conservation of these animals, which they keep their hairteeth, and even muscle tissuehas reactivated the intention to clone them to bring them back to life.
It’s curious squirrel of the Ice Agewith 30,000 years oldwill be on display to the public at the Yukon Beringia Center, along with other animals found in the area.