Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of ...

A treasure trove of prehistoric squirrel poop is painting a picture of a lost world. Some of the oldest DNA ever discovered ...

Learn more about the treasure trove of evolutionary data uncovered from ancient Arctic ground squirrel droppings.

When most people imagine paleontologists at work, they likely envision researchers investigating giant dinosaur fossils or a ...

Ancient squirrel poo doesn’t stink. At least not at first. But that changes when you begin to break down the pellets. Melting ...

Frozen deep beneath the Yukon’s permafrost, small pellets left behind by ancient ground squirrels have preserved a record of ...

The scent of ancient squirrel feces filled the laboratory where researcher Tyler Murchie was working to extract the genetic ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including ...

A new study has found a trove of genetic material in the fossilized feces of ground squirrels, offering insight into Ice Age ...

DNA preserved in 700,000-year-old squirrel droppings uncovered mammoths and other species, providing a detailed view of an ...

A sealed vial of sediment pulled from Yukon permafrost does not look like a breakthrough. It looks like dirt until the ...

McMaster University studied ancient ground squirrel droppings that provided them with one of the oldest collections of DNA ever recovered.