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Squirrels are individuals from the family Sciuridae, a family that incorporates little or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family incorporates tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (counting groundhogs), flying squirrels, and grassland canines among different rodents. Squirrels are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were acquainted by people with Australia.The soonest realized fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene age, and among other living rat families, the squirrels are most firmly identified with the mountain beaver and to the dormice.

"Squirrel", first confirmed in quite a while, from the Anglo-Norman esquirel which is from the Old French escurel, the reflex of a Latin word sciurus, which was taken from the Ancient Greek word σκίουρος (from σκία-ουρος), skiouros, "shadow-followed", alluding to the long ragged tail which large numbers of its individuals have.

The local Old English word for the squirrel, ācweorna, endure just into Middle English (as aquerne) prior to being replaced.The Old English word is of Common Germanic beginning, cognates of which are as yet utilized in other Germanic dialects, including the German Eichhörnchen (humble of Eichhorn, which isn't as oftentimes utilized), the Norwegian ikorn/ekorn, the Dutch eekhoorn, the Swedish ekorre and the Danish egern