Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic reconstruction. Fossilized squirrel droppings reveal ancient ecosystems, offering rare genetic insights into life during ...

The scent of ancient squirrel feces filled the laboratory where researcher Tyler Murchie was working to extract the genetic material it contained, revealing the scat can still smell just as fresh ...

There’s a lot you can tell about a squirrel from its droppings, even if they’re 700,000 years old. After collecting ground squirrel droppings preserved in the Yukon permafrost, researchers from ...

Ancient poop left behind by Arctic ground squirrels ended up containing a remarkable array of genetic information, a study says. Reading time 2 minutes Arctic ground squirrels will eat just about ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, deep in the mountains of the Yukon, a ground squirrel pooped. That scat stayed frozen for millenia—until very recently, when researchers thawed it out and realized ...

Researchers analyzed permafrost samples collected from ground squirrel burrows that span several glacial periods and can remain frozen and sealed for thousands of years. (Georgia Kirkos via SWNS) By ...

Frozen deep beneath the Yukon's permafrost, small pellets left behind by ancient ground squirrels have preserved a record of life that stretches back hundreds of thousands of years. What appears ...

Squirrel droppings dating back up to 700,000 years have revealed "remarkable" new details about the Arctic's evolutionary history. The dung — preserved for millennia in the deep permafrost of Canada's ...