why the fuss over dead sea squirrels?

I don't think there's such a thing as sea squirrels.  They're just land squirrels that somehow got into the sea.

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Then how come they're dead, according to your title? Sounds fishy...

The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts discovered in pottery storage jars in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956. Thought to have been hidden by the Essenes or a similar Jewish sect shortly before the revolt against Roman rule ad 66-70, the scrolls include texts of many books of the Bible; they are some 1,000 years older than previously known versions.