North 'Brown blob' found in Yukon is a well-preserved Ice Age squirrel 30,000-year-old animal, found in Klondike goldfields in 2018, will soon go on display in Whitehorse ...

Editor’s note: The following column was originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Dec. 11, 1999.

From the outside, it just kind of looks like a brown blob. It looks a bit like a brown rock.” Whitehorse veterinarian Dr. Jess Heath X-rays the squirrel, ‘Hester.’ (Government of Yukon) ...

Arctic ground squirrels — still common in Yukon today — make nests, or middens, underground for hibernation and Zazula says Ice Age nests are regularly found preserved in the Klondike permafrost.

'Brown blob' found in Yukon is a well-preserved Ice Age squirrel Published on Mar. 30, 2023, 5:13 PM Updated on Mar. 31, 2023, 12:31 AM ...