Regina G. Barber

So Melissa and her colleagues tried an intervention using sound.

Sound.

Oh, I know.

Yeah.

So it did help, like compared to the control group who didn't get the recordings.

The babies in the intervention group had more mature white matter in key language areas of the brain.

And the researchers published these results in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience this week.

And research like this has changed preemie care at the hospital.

They now give all preemie parents free books to read and the chance to record their voices.

And all this caught the attention of zoologist Michael Granatoski at the University of Tennessee.

He studies how animals evolve their movements.

And in his scientific opinion.

Well, that's where this mystery comes in, right?

Like Michael was seeing posts on social media where people were guessing it could be a squirrel because it was next to a tree.

And he thought.

Science is amazing, right?

So they collected pictures of the rat hole from the Internet since the actual imprint was actually removed last year.

And using these pictures, they took a bunch of like body measurements and they compared these measurements to taxidermied animals from the American Museum of Natural History.

From rats and squirrels to mice and muskrats.

And they ran a bunch of statistics and they found.