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  1. The Squirrels is a British television sitcom created by Eric Chappell. It was produced by ATV for the ITV and broadcast from 1974 to 1977 running for 3 series and 28 episodes. Chappell later created the Yorkshire Television sitcoms Rising Damp, among other series.

  2. Origins and Evolutionary Journey. The evolutionary history of squirrels traces back to around 36 million years ago during the late Eocene epoch. Fossil records suggest that the earliest ancestors of modern squirrels were small, arboreal rodents.

  3. Oct 24, 2024 · Fossils record the evolutionary history of tree squirrels back to the Late Eocene Epoch (41.3 million to 33.7 million years ago) in North America and the Miocene Epoch (23.8 million to 5.3 million years ago) in Africa and Eurasia. 2 subfamilies comprising 272 species in 51 genera found worldwide.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SquirrelSquirrel - Wikipedia

    Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were introduced by humans to Australia. [ 1 ] . The earliest known fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene epoch, and among other living rodent families, the squirrels are most closely related to the mountain beaver and dormice. [ 2 ] Etymology.

  5. Aug 13, 2019 · The American fox squirrel has a black variant from which black squirrels originated. The new findings build on earlier work by Dr McRobie which found that the black fur in grey squirrels is...

  6. Feb 20, 2003 · Monte Basgall. The first-ever genetic delineation of nearly all existing squirrel groups suggests not only some surprising branchings in the squirrels' family tree. The study also reveals strong evidence that geological and climatic change influenced how their ancestors evolved and spread over 36 million years from just one part of ancient ...

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  8. www.rospa.com › about-us › historyTufty - RoSPA

    Tufty Fluffytail is RoSPA’s iconic red squirrel who was instrumental in helping millions of children to learn about road safety from the 1950s-1990s. Created in 1953 by Elsie Mills MBE, who worked on child safety initiatives at RoSPA, Tufty helped to communicate simple safety messages to children across the UK.

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