Were Squirrels Around With Dinosaurs? What the Fossils Reveal
Maybe you can picture a little squirrel zipping around under a T. rex’s feet, but that’s not quite how it happened. The squirrels you see today didn’t show up until long after non-avian dinosaurs vanished, so they never actually shared the prehistoric stage. Still, some small, squirrel-like mammal relatives did scurry around while dinosaurs ruled…