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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient poop revealed the surprisingly carnivorous nature of an Arctic survivor. Bits of this poop, belonging to Arctic squirrels, had sat locked in Yukon permafrost for tens of thousands of years — ...

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 ...