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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers document a cluster of ancient Arctic ground squirrel faecal pellets preserved in permafrost at Hunker Creek, Yukon, in ...

A time capsule that reveals an ecosystem from 700,000 years ago has been unearthed in permafrost that does not melt even in summer. It is the droppings of the Arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers document a cluster of ancient Arctic ground squirrel faecal pellets preserved in permafrost at Hunker Creek, Yukon, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon, showing Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the ...

In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths and other ice age animals. These droppings, hundreds of thousands of ...

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found ...

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 ...