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The Viral 'Chicago Rat Hole' Wasn't Actually Made by a Rat, Scientists Claim
Researchers used paleontological techniques to analyze the imprint and found it likely came from an eastern gray or fox squirrel, not a rat, in Chicago’s Roscoe Village.
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The Chicago viral "Rat Hole" is less rat splashes, more squirrel crashes. The researchers determined that it was probably a squirrel that had left a rodent-shaped print in Windy City concrete. Their new study, published on October 15 in Letters of Biology borrowed paleontological tools [...]
Cause of Chicago’s Viral ‘Rat Hole’ Finally Discovered–and It’s Not a Rat
A year after it sparked worldwide attention, scientists have settled one of Chicago’s strangest viral mysteries—revealing that the so-called “Chicago rat hole” was not actually made by a rat. Researchers led from the University of Tennessee and the New York Institute of Technology examined the…
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