Blue squirrel

Blue squirrels are squirrels with a blue coloration. The cause of this rare coloration has not been determined.
Sightings
Earliest record
In a 1963 paper by Vladimir Andreyev, he reported that a rare species of blue squirrel inhabited parts of the taiga of the Sakha Republic. Another paper published in 1975 reported of blue squirrels being hunted for their pelts in the Soviet Union. The earliest known record of blue squirrels occurs in an 1884 paper published by the documenting the trade of blue squirrel skins in parts of China and it's tributaries. Blue squirrels are also recorded in several Native American folktales.
2012 sighting
* In 2012, a blue squirrel was photographed by . No theories on its unique coloring were presented.
2015 sighting
* A blue squirrel was spotted and photographed multiple times at a park in central Texas. The squirrel was nicknamed "Blue Nuts" by locals and it was determined to be non-aggressive and friendly. There are theories that it was an entirely new species of squirrel that had previously gone extinct.
2016 sightings
* A blue squirrel was seen and photographed in Bend, Oregon in 2016. The squirrel had a blue tail and a theory was that it encountered blue tinted water.
*On December 21, 2016, a completely bright blue squirrel was spotted in North Florida. It was theorized that the squirrel's fur was tinted by blue paint or dye.

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